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Baronyx has announced that it plans to build a 28,000 sq ft data centre in Stratford, Texas that will be powered by wind turbines: 38,000 acres will be offshore, and 8,000 acres will be onshore turbines.  Initially, the data centre will be powered by 150 onshore wind turbines near the data centre, located in the Texas panhandle.  Each turbine will be capable of generating from 3.3 to 6 megawatts of power.

Over time, however, the data centre anticipates adding more machines, which will require more power.  Baronyx says it will then add 450 additional offshore turbines, which will be located in the Gulf of Mexico, and generate significantly more power.

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Bedford Borough Council has given its support to TRE Global UK’s plans to build a 200,000 sq ft data centre at Twinwoods Business Park near Bedford. The £150 million data centre plan received a resolution to grant consent by Bedford Borough Council’s Planning Committee at their meeting on Monday.When completed, the data centre will contain 10 data halls, 700 computing servers and an attached office building. Work could start onsite as soon as this year. It is expected to become operational in late 2010.

In the next months TRE is planning to make further investments in an energy recovery facility that will generate renewable energy for the local area and a new surfing simulator at Bodyflight.

Source: Property Week

Virtus Data Centres, the data centre operating entity of Obsidian, have announced that they have completed on their all cash purchase of a 40,000 sq ft building in Enfield, North London for the development of our new 60,000 sq ft Tier 3 data centre facility.   Having completed the purchase and secured specific planning consent for use as a Data Centre, Virtus have now triggered the installation of the 8MVA from EDF.

The facility designed by Norman Disney and Young will have a power density of 1.72kw per sq m across 25,193 sq ft (2,341 sq m) of net technical space. Structure Tone, in partnership with Gratte Brothers, has been formally appointed as the principle contractor and will be responsible for the entire construction and M&E fit out.

Source: Virtus

Six months after scaling back construction of some of its data centres, Microsoft is back in gear and ready to open at least two of them next month. Microsoft officials had slowed work on a data centre in Chicago and another facility planned in Des Moines, Ohio, late last year, as the economy sputtered. However, if the company really wants to win the battle for cloud computing dominance as the concept catches on, Microsoft executives knew they had to ante up to build mega data centres – bad economy or not.

Wednesday, Microsoft will open a new 300,000 sq ft data centre in Dublin, Ireland – its first mega data centre outside the US – and the company plans to open its mammoth, 700,000 sq ft Chicago data centre on July 20, according to Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services organization within Global Foundation Services.

Source: Internet News

Two years after Microsoft began operating a data centre in Quincy, the city is in the midst of a multi-million-dollar project to bring recycled water to the facility. Although the city water reclamation project is costly — estimated at US$9 million — the first phase is being built with a US$4.5 million grant from the state. And the city has appealed to federal lawmakers for rest of the money.

Microsoft’s 474,000 sq ft building on 75 acres is one of three massive data centres in Quincy. Yahoo and Intuit also bought land and built large server farms. This winter, Sabey bought about 40 acres of land in Quincy and will break ground this summer on a data centre. Eventually, the city wants to provide recycled water to the three data centres there, and any others that sprout up. When complete, the water reclamation facility will be able to treat up to 5 million gallons a day.

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Just off the North Sea coast in the UK, Hewlett-Packard’s EDS unit has built a data centre that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and – by doing so – cut the centre’s cooling power needs in half. The expected reduction in electricity costs, from US$15 million to US$7.5 million, is achieved through a combination of factors that may begin with a 12-foot raised floor, which is easily three to four times the height of a typical data centre raised floor.

The higher floor allowed designers to install fans 7.5 feet in diameter that bring in outside air to cool the 305,000 sq ft data centre. The larger fans are more efficient than a series of smaller fans, said Ed Kettler, an EDS fellow. EDS is the HP division that is building the data centre in Wynyard for its clients. “That is a relatively new approach as far as we can tell,” he said.

Source: Computer World

Digital Realty Trust starts work on fourth Ashburn data centre

While news of troubled business and layoffs are all around, at least one Ashburn company is showing no signs of slowing down. With the business forecasting 20 percent growth over 2009, local and state representatives gathered this week to break ground on the fourth data centre facility at Digital Realty Trust, located off Shellhorn Road.

“One of the reasons we’re doing so well is because of counties like this and the commonwealth,” Dave Caron, senior vice president of Digital Realty Trust, said. The company opened its first project in Virginia in November 2005 and now has 12 properties throughout the state, taking up 1.3 million sq ft.

Source: Leesburg Today