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Why Capgemini thinks its Merlin datacentre is the most sustainable around...
Why Capgemini thinks its Merlin datacentre is the most sustainable around...
This is Capgemini's Merlin datacentre due to open on 12 October in Swindon, Wiltshire. The IT service provider touts the 3,000 square metre datacentre as the most sustainable facility in the world.
Capgemini's sustainability claim is based in part on the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of the site, and also takes into account the amount of embedded carbon used in the construction of the datacentre, water use and contaminants produced.
Merlin's PUE is 1.1 which is lower than Google's E datacentre (1.12) and HP's Wynyard facility (1.16), although Yahoo! recently opened a datacentre with a PUE of 1.08.
The datacentre is located in an existing warehouse (shown above) which was previously used by car company Honda to store components for its manufacturing plant down the road. The fact that this is an existing building means no carbon was emitted in the construction of the site.
Capgemini will use Merlin to allow businesses to place their hardware into the datacentre which the company will then manage.
Caption by: Tim Ferguson
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