Dec 8 2009
Syracuse University in collaboration with IBM and New York State has completed the construction of its Green Data Center (GDC). This milestone was celebrated by Syracuse University. This facility will be showcased as one of the greenest data centers in the world.
The facility was announced in the month of May 2009 and the construction was completed in six months. With 6,000 square feet for infrastructure space and another 6,000 square feet raised-floor space for data center, this $12.4 million facility has total floor space of 12,000 square feet. This green data center generates power on-site for electricity, cooling, and heating. It houses IBM’s advanced servers that are energy efficient including system management software and computer-cooling technology.
The GDC is expected to be fully operational in January 2010, it will consume about 50% energy when compared to the energy consumption of a similar data center. A GDC Analysis and Design Center will also be established in 2010 to provide research services for clients and others who want to establish new data centers that are energy-efficient or convert the current data centers to optimize the energy efficiency.
IBM has supported this initiative by providing $5 million in equipment including equipment for power generation, IBM BladeCenter, IBM z10 servers, IBM Power 575, and a DS8300 storage device. Another $2 million was contributed by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to the GDC project. Additional funding of $500,000 from the New York State Senate was secured by Senator David Valesky.
IBM will be showcasing this facility, which incorporates the latest energy-efficient technologies, for their clients who want to launch new data centers or upgrade their existing operations. The facility will also be expanding the leadership of Syracuse University in green innovations technology domains.
Today’s data centers consume vast amount of power and this collaboration is to address this problem said Vijay Lund, Vice President for cross-IBM offerings in IBM's Software Group. He added that they adopted innovative methods and looked beyond traditional technologies to generate electricity, to cool the data center and to make the computers more efficient and effective.
Source: http://syr.edu/greendatacenter/