ELEAN DATA CAMPUS 27% POWER SAVINGS FEATURED IN FINANCIAL TIMES NEWS VIDEO Click here to read more.
Businesses told to go green to stay in the black
As business leaders count the cost of spiralling energy demand, Lasercharm's Elean Data Campus 27 per cent power savings promise has been featured in a news video by the Financial Times.
The 65,000m2 development, to be built on the former Mepal airfield site at Sutton, 12 miles north of Cambridge, promises to deliver reduced running costs using energy-efficient techniques.
Recent studies show that the Elean Data Campus promises to make power savings of 27 per cent, representing a cost reduction of at least £8.5m per annum.
Using the adjacent straw-burning power station, Elean will use absorption chilling to cool the servers, negating the requirement for electricity. This will cut the amount of energy used from 75MW to 34MW.
In addition, the campus will only use 100% carbon-neutral waste as a power source, reducing its environmental impact and further establishing its sustainability credentials.
An 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 the energy cost of a standard data centre over one year, and compared it with Elean.
The study reveals that 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.
A website giving further details of the Elean Data Campus has been set up. For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Alex Arthur at Lasercharm.
For further information:
Paul Dimoldenberg: 020 7566 7960
Vicki Mann: 020 7566 7967
Thursday 27 November 2008
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