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Nebraska data center tax break leaps forward
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)
One of two incentive bills Nebraska lawmakers introduced hurriedly to lure a US$1.2bn data center construction project by an unnamed company took a swift leap ahead Thursday, after the state’s unicameral (one house) legislature voted unanimously to advance it, Omaha World-Herald reported. The bill – whose language was for the first time debated by the full legislature Thursday – would extend to large (US$300m-plus) data centers the state’s standing law that allows projects of certain size to get sales- and use-tax refunds, be exempt from property tax and get state refunds on local property taxes on IT hardware and software.
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Colt to add POP to Verne Global data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)
Colt will establish a point of presence in Verne Global’s data center in Keflavik, Iceland to connect its pan-European access and backbone network with the site, The PoP will link into Colt’s European network in Amsterdam and London. The connection to Iceland, due to be completed by mid 2012, broadens the availability of Colt’s integrated network and computing solutions for enterprises, carriers and channel partners, it said. Colt’s platform includes 19 Colt data centres and a 35,000km high-performance network in 21 European countries and the USA. “Given its location and abundance of natural resources for renewable energy, Iceland is expected to become the new epicentre for business between the USA and mainland Europe, and as such, it is an important strategic step for us to expand our network presence into this region,” said François Eloy, Executive Vice President at Colt.
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Verne Global officially opens Iceland data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)
Verne Global, which uses a Colt Modular Data Center inside its data center shell to house infrastructure, announced GreenQloud, a provider of monitored cloud services, online gaming company CCP and local systems integrator Opin Kerfi as its first customers at its Keflavik, Iceland campus. CCP Games (CCP), is a $65m company which started in 1997 and is the creator of EVE Online, an online game with 400,000 users is moving some of its corporate hosting to its data centre campus in Iceland.
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DRT to build in Irish data center park
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 8 2012)
Ireland’s ‘Data Center Cluster’ Profile Park has another high-profile name to add to its belt – Digital Realty Trust (DRT), which has just purchased a 10-acre development site suitable for 193,000 sq ft of data center space with 11.5MW of power. Profile Park, 15km outside of Dublin, is already home to Microsoft’s 303,000 mega data center used for cloud computing services which opened in 2009, and Telecity, which last year said it is more than doubling available power to its Dublin data center. Google also announced plans last year to build a 75m euro data center at the park, which covers 100 acres.
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Colt receives Uptime certification for M&O
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 2 2012)
; London 3 becomes first data center in Europe to be recognized for site management using the standard 2 February 2012 by Penny Jones - DatacenterDynamics Print Colt's Guy Ruddock Colt has become the first data center operator in Europe to receive the Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations certification for a data center, which covers third-party assurance for site management. Colt had to undergo extensive a
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Free cooling cuts AC use by 75% at Brooklyn data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 1 2012)
GalaxyVisions and its subsidiary ColoGuard have reduced usage of mechanical air conditioning at their shared Brooklyn data center by 75% since implementation of airside economization at the facility two years ago.
GalaxyVisions VP of operations Ruben Magurdumov said deployment of an airside economizer at the company’s facility in the New York City borough gave the company substantial efficiency advantages, even with this winter’s unusually warm weather.
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Rittal direct free cools the cabinet
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jan 26 2012)
Rittal made a number of announcements this week, including a cabinet that can be bolted on to an outside wall to make use of free air cooling.
The cabinet specialist said its latest Modular Safe offering Extend is designed for medium-sized users.
It makes use of horizontal air flow with separate cold and hot sides with cooled air from outside directed in from of the IT system.
“The cooling unit is installed between the side panel of the Modular Safe and the outer wall on the site,” Rittal said.
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Illinois supercomputing center gets LEED Gold
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jan 10 2012)
Facility built to support Blue Waters supercomputer 11 January 2012 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik Print The National Petascale Computing Facility at the University of Illinois The newly built data center at the University of Illinois that will soon support one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers received LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council. Even with 24MW of critical load, the Natio (Read Full Article)
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DCD London: Iceland prepares for data center demand
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Dec 2 2011)
Icelandic state and Arion bank-owned Farice ehf is putting in a new IP Transit service to meet demands from the growing data center industry in Iceland.
It announced extension to its subsea cable links between Iceland and Europe at DatacenterDynamics CONVERGED, held at the London ExCel exhibition center yesterday.
Farice said the new IP transit service offers 1GbE and 10GbE ports under a wholesale agreement for customers with IPv4 and IPv6 AS numbers.
Farcie IP transit service product manager Orn Orrason said customers have been demanding a greater variety of services and lower bandwidth costs and better links to the rest of the world.
“The service is targeted towards demanding data center customers and telecom service providers seeking a cost effective and high availability internet access from Iceland,” Orrason said.
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US hosting and colocation news roundup
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 16 2011)
QTS data center in Atlanta gets LEED Gold
Colocation services provider QTS received a LEED Gold certification for its mega-data center in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The company bought the 990,000 sq ft facility in 2007, after which it implemented a number of measures to increase its energy efficiency.
These included collecting rainwater to supplement water supply for the cooling system among other improvements, which collectively reduced the data center’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) by 11.4%.
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The taxing issues in London today
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 16 2011)
There are very few occasions when an industry breathes a sigh of relief because of a new tax. But after a year of debate, confusion and sitting on the fence, the UK data center industry didexactly that. The government had announced its Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) — first meant to be a complicated ranking, measuring and carbon-charging solution — would now be a simple tax.
It was the topic that dominated last year’s DatacenterDynamics London event. Most speakers, regardless of whether they were from the engineering or design side of the data center, had something to say about it.
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The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011)
The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturityDatacenterDynamics“The same revolution is now happening in data center production and deployment, building greater potential for cost savings and increased energy efficiency.” Manufacturing pre-engineered modules at a factory before deploying them at a data center site ...and more »
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Swedish operator plans to package design in to modular data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 14 2011)
Swedish operator plans to package design in to modular data centerDatacenterDynamicsIt is free cooling, and can be used anywhere in the world,” Karlung says. The power module, however, can be used as a built-in part of the solution, or omitted by companies choosing to use a different solution. The modules themselves, if more than one ...and more »
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UK government releases first CRC league table
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 10 2011)
It may no longer apply to carbon credits but the first UK Government CRC energy Efficiency Scheme league table, released yesterday, still has its critics.
The biggest accusation has been it does not provide a true indication of how a company’s energy efficiency measures – the table only measures actions taken over the last year, and some have said it penalizes data centers that were designed to be efficient built before this period.
In July, DCD blogger Ian Bitterlin, CTO for Ark Continuity, said he thought the league table would fail to drive incentive given there is no longer any monetary value beyond goodwill attached the table (read Bitterlin’s blog post here)
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Why locate your data center in the Netherlands
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 10 2011)
Why locate your data center in the NetherlandsDatacenterDynamicsIn the Netherlands, the role of the outsourced data center has become even more important as the Dutch Government increases focus on reducing CO2 emissions. The recent Multiple Year Energy Efficiency Agreement (Meerjarenafspraak Energie Efficientie) ...and more »
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Global Switch gets planning consent for $300m Singapore data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 9 2011)
Global Switch gets planning consent for $300m Singapore data centerDatacenterDynamicsIn a statement Global Switch said: "Singapore 2 will be a leading example of an environmentally sustainable data centre incorporating innovative design initiatives aimed at achieving long-term energy efficiency. Every aspect of the design has been ...and more »
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NTT lowers PUE and expects big savings following DCIM implementation
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 8 2011)
NTT America has deployed an energy-management system at two large US data centers in two major markets, expecting the system to bring major energy-cost savings and realizing Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) improvement.
Following a successful pilot implementation of Vigilent's energy management system at its data center in San Jose, California, NTT America has implemented the solution at full scale at the San Jose facility and at its Sterling, Virginia, data center – the provider's two largest US facilities.
Collectively, NTT expects the move to result in about US$630,000 in savings on energy costs per year, the company said Tuesday.
Kazuhiro Gomi, president and CEO of NTT America, said the company's motivations in implementing the Vigilent solution went beyond its own cost savings.
“Equally important is our enterprise customers' interest in, and support of, energy efficiency both from the environmental and cost reduction avenues,” he said.
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Australia data center news roundup
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 7 2011)
Australia’s Federal Government said it will consider making data centers in the country exempt from its new carbon tax, passed as the Clean Energy Bill 2011 in October this year and due to come in place with Senate approval, if such a move is needed to keep data center activity onshore.
In a report by The Australian last month, a spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the government was monitoring the impact of the tax on the sector, and especially the impact the carbon tax could have on the burgeoning cloud computing market.
He did say no exemption was being considered at the moment, but it was looking into reports that a number of companies had reconsidered plans to spend millions on new data centers, instead opting to move cloud operations offshore.
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Data centers move Italian Army closer the Cloud
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 4 2011)
Data center design and build company Italtel, with Cisco, has constructed two data centers for the Italian Army in Rome and Padua.
The data centers, which use Cisco switching and computing technology, are the first step in a major IT refresh for the Italian Army, which is moving towards a cloud computing environment.
Italtel CEO Stefano Pileri refered to the data center as ‘nodes of concentration and virtualization’ that he said will allow the Italian Army to carry out consolidation plans and virtualize its computing resources with a view to reducing its physical server count and removing network complexity.
“The paradigm of cloud computing – reinforced with next-generation IP networks, which can ensure safety and reliability of access, management and virtualization – is one of the key pieces of the path of innovation proposed by Italtel to businesses and government agencies,” Pileri said.
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Trans Atlantic cable Iceland landing point identified
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 2 2011)
Iceland's ThorDC and trans Atlantic cable company Emerald Express Trans-Atlantic Cable System announced the Iceland landing point in Grindavik, Reykjanes, Iceland which is set to be launched in December 2012.
The planned 100x100 Gbps network will link North America and Europe with landing points in New Foundland Canada and Ireland and with a spur connecting Iceland.
"The Emerald Express System includes a high capacity connection to Iceland, allowing Iceland based data center ThorDC to offer ultra low latency connections to Europe and North America, the other landing points are positioned off Newfoundland and Ireland. The trans-Atlantic marine cable route survey commenced in early August and the Emerald Express System is planned to enter service in December 2012," a statement said.
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Facebook makes friends near Arctic Circle with data center announcement
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Oct 27 2011)
Facebook makes friends near Arctic Circle with data center announcementDatacenterDynamicsIt is expected to say it is setting up three server halls across 30000sq m which will use free cooling, making the most of the cold climate at the Aurorum Science Park where it will be situated in northern Sweden. A report by UK newspaper the Telegraph ...and more »
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Dutch provider opens 12MW Russian data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Oct 24 2011)
Dutch provider opens 12MW Russian data centerDatacenterDynamicsIt uses on-site gas turbines for co-generation and takes advantage of free cooling. Linxdatacenter has served the Russian market for more than 11 years, the company said. It has had a data center in Moscow for about a decade and the St. Petersburg ...and more »
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Malaysian developer nears kit out phase of 120000 sq ft data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Oct 14 2011)
Malaysian developer nears kit out phase of 120000 sq ft data centerDatacenterDynamics... trends in capacity utilization to ensure optimal management. In bringing together a consortium of companies with industry-leading expertise in their respective fields, we have found a winning formula for a sustainable, cutting-edge green data center.”and more »
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Savvis on the future of colocation
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Oct 6 2011)
Savvis on the future of colocationDatacenterDynamicsWhat does it see as the biggest challenge with the green data center moving forward? Ensuring that systems and processes are in place to deliver the environmental compliance and monitoring data required within and across all of the geographies where we ...
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