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Digital Realty Trust is living in a different world than most of the rest of the commercial real estate industry. The locally based data centre REIT’s 11-million sq ft operating portfolio is 95% leased, demand appears high and new average rents are three-times higher than expiring rents. “Despite the deepening economic downturn, DLR is seeing solid pricing and demand in almost all regions and sectors,” JMP Securities Analyst Will Marks said in a client note. “This is difficult for many to fathom, particularly in light of what happened to the data centre market during the last downturn and the severity of this global recession in comparison to the last one.”

“Today, data centres are used by a wide variety of companies, from startups to well-established giants, and are now a necessity for businesses in every sector,” Marks writes. Looking ahead, despite a constrained supply of data centres and sufficient liquidity to develop and meet debt maturities over the next two years, Digital Realty is holding back on pursuing this demand in order to maintain a strong balance sheet with a liquidity cushion, Marks reports. While it may not speculate it certainly will be willing to develop freely on a build-to-suit basis with strong tenants, and Marks thinks the demand will be there.

Source: Globe Street

In the latest “data centre in a box” announcement, HP has said that its “pod,” which is similar to Sun’s modular data centre except that it’s twice as long and boasts more and larger server racks, now works with uninterruptible power systems and water-based cooling technology from Active Power.

According to Jim Clishem, president and CEO of Active Power, his company’s power systems are about 10% more efficient than competing UPSs, which could result in about a US$1 million per year operational savings on a pod. He says Active Power’s solution can pack twice the power in half the space of other power supplies because of its use of flywheels. And while the average power usage effectiveness (PUE) of a data centre is 1.8 to 2.0, he says this pod configuration will deliver a PUE of less than 1.25.

Source: Wall Street and Tech

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