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ZDNet UK has toured Merlin, Capgemini's sustainable, modular, energy-efficient 10,000-square-foot datacentre that has plans to be scaled up to three times that capacity
Capgemini's Merlin datacentre is housed within an old 86,000-square-foot warehouse in Swindon. Made up of four modules that add up to a total datacentre area of 10,000 square feet, the facility can be expanded to a maximum of 12 modules. IT consulting and services provider Capgemini is aiming for the facility to be fully occupied handling IT outsourcing work by June 2011.
The company "wanted modularity right from the start, rather than fixing ourselves to another monolithic building", said Paul Anderson, the programme director for infrastructure outsourcing at Capgemini. From the start, it saw the warehouse as a good shell to use for a self-contained, modular datacentre, he added.
The facility has a load-tested power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.1. PUE expresses the proportion of power that must be expended to support the IT infrastructure, versus the power that actually runs the racks, servers, network equipment and other essential components of the datacentre. A PUE rating of 1.1 means that only 10 percent of the total facility's power goes on the support infrastructure, with the rest going on the equipment.
"On this first phase of 10,000 square feet we have invested £12m. However, the overall investment will be in the region of £28m to bring online the other eight modules, giving a total technical floor capacity of 30,000 square feet," Anderson told ZDNet UK.
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