Sun Microsystems Opens a New Green Datacenter
Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year. Read More
Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon this week on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company’s carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year.
Sun said it achieved the efficiencies and compressed the space used at the datacenter in Broomfield by 88 percent by replacing old equipment with its Sun Fire T2000 Server with CoolThreads technology, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server and the Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server as well as Sun Open Storage.
The datacenter is the fourth green facility of its kind for Sun, and the company said its features build on improvements put in place at green datacenters in Santa Clara, Calif., Blackwater, U.K., and Bangalore, India.
According to Sun, the Broomfield center:
* Consolidates 496,000 square feet to 126,000 square feet
* Saves $4 million by reducing 126,000 square feet of raised floor to 700 square feet
* Reduces electrical consumption by 1 million kWh each month
* Uses chillers that are 32 percent more efficient than ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) standards require
* Deploys a waterside economizer system that enables free cooling for more than one-third of the year
* Uses fly wheel UPS energy storage systems that eliminate lead and chemical waste created by batteries
* Uses Dolphin water treatment systems to eliminate chemicals and saves 675,000 gallons of water annually.
More information about the new datacenter along with photos and videos of the site are available here.
Sun also announced that it is offering businesses free on-site assessment of their datacenters to help identify potential savings. More information about the program is available here.
