ELEAN DATA CENTRE TO OFFER POWER SAVINGS OF 20 PER CENT Click here to read more.
As business leaders count the cost of spiralling energy demand, recent studies show that the Lasercharm data centre to be built in Cambridgeshire promises to make power savings of 20 per cent, reducing costs by at least £8.5m per annum.
The indicative cost model produced by CoCal Ltd. was obtained using a current tariff for a large electricity user (11 KVA) at 11.31p per KW Hr. Lasercharm then forecast their energy cost for a year, in a standard data centre, and compared it with the Elean Data Centre.
If an energy inflation factor of 5% is used (last year it was 30%), the saving would be at least £400m over twenty-five years. If energy inflation was a mean 10% – and with the introduction of the Climate Change Levy, this could easily be the case in twenty-five years – savings over twenty-five years would be over £800m.
The 65,000m2 development – to be built on the former Mepal airfield site at Sutton, 12 miles north of Cambridge – is a truly sustainable project which promises to deliver reduced running costs using energy-efficient techniques.
The six data centre buildings will be powered from multiple redundant sources, principally from the adjacent 38MW straw-burning combined heat and power plant, delivering demonstrable energy conservation. The plant will only use 100% carbon-neutral waste as a power source, reducing its environmental impact and further establishing its sustainability credentials.
Waste heat from the plant will be available as an energy source to cool the data centres through absorption cooling and, in the future, could also heat the 400 homes of an accompanying Eco Village.
The absorption chillers operate through a simple heat exchange process using super-heated lithium bromide, which would be energised using the off-take heat from the power station, then superheating it through the exhaust flues of the generating gas engines on site, consuming almost no new energy.
BNB representative, Alex Arthur, said:
“The Elean Data Centre achieves this impressive 20 per cent saving on power by on-site generation, reclaiming the heat, and providing our chilled water from absorption cooling for free. And, of course, the prospect of savings of over £8.5m a year is very exciting at a time when energy demand and the capital cost of bringing power to a new data centre development are becoming ever important.”
A website giving further details of the Elean Data Campus has been set up. For further information about the data centres, contact GVA Grimley Director Chris Jones, on 020 7911 2525.
The architects for the Data Campus are Arcadiam, and the planners are DP9.
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Paul Dimoldenberg, Quatro Public Relations
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Tuesday 4 November 2008
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