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May 19th, 2009 [by Doug Alder]
In May of this year GigaCenter will open its doors for tours for prospective customers and customers can begin moving their equipment in June 2009. The design is scalable, we are starting with 30,000 sq. ft. and that will scale easily to over 100,000 sq. ft. This helps preserve the green footprint as less space needs HVAC. Internally the design is modular with up to 32 “GigaVaults” which are completely self-contained datacenter suites with it’s own power, cooling, networking etc. Each GigaVault can hold up to 12 x 42 u racks. Racks can be loaded to 1,000 watts per sq. ft. (note that with in-row cooling two 42u racks of in-row cooling would be required for 10 42u racks at 1000w/sq. ft.) As our president and chief visionary Tim Dufour recently said to us:
We have a design that provides the ultimate in flexibility, scalability, and maximum efficiency (Green). The beauty of the in-row cooling is that it allows us to build at virtually any density per vault. We have cold-aisle containment but can also provide hot-aisle containment to accommodate gas-based fire suppression systems. We have monster racks with additional rack space above that can be used for secure internal use (switches etc.) or customer purposes. Extra security can be provided with heavy diamond mesh over the top of the vault. Any version of an in rack ePDU can be provided as per customer requirements, 10 Gbps networking both LAN and WAN, low cost Internet, and the list goes on. I don’t think anyone on the planet can provide this kind of flexibility.
This is just the start folks, lots more to come 
stay tuned! If you are in need of colocation space and would like a tour of GigaCenter please contact myself Doug Alder (dalder at rackforce dot com ph: +1 (250)448-2203), Jay Robinson (jrobinson at rackforce dot com ph: +1 (250) 717-2340 ext:2303) or Paul Amodea (pamodea at rackforce dot com ph: +1 (604)535-5769 ) to set up an appointment. You had better hurry though as phase I is rapidly selling out and if you miss out on phase I then you’ll have to wait for phase II.
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August 6th, 2008 [by Doug Alder]
Until of late conventional “wisdom” has held the belief that negatively affects a company’s . This view, rightfully, is beginning to change, no doubt in part from the perception of coming .
In a very insightful post , President of , makes some excellent points on :
No tags for this post.Companies today can be classified in one of five stages as advances toward sustainability. Those stages are:
Awareness: Company becomes aware that environmental concerns are permeating discourse, though sustainability as a value is absent from corporate culture.
Resistive: Company becomes aware of its own environmental impact of doing business, but demonstrates no commitment to environmental responsibility and possibly some reaction against it.
Legalistic: Company strictly focuses on compliance to minimum environmental regulations, with no commitment to raising standards for conservation or energy efficiency.
Reactive: Company recognizes strategic value of sustainability opportunities, but pursues only opportunities that do not create new risks.
Strategic: Company uses proactive approach to sustainability opportunities and evaluates the impact of sustainability initiatives on the long-term value of the enterprise.
In spite of the payoffs that some big businesses have received from many companies still view a sustainability commitment through the lens of compliance. When companies progress beyond compliance and extend their actions strategically, they become more nimble, and better equipped to meet the rapidly changing demands of the marketplace . [emphasis added]
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July 3rd, 2008 [by Doug Alder]
This article compares the /source and resulting of traditional to the ultra-green powered gigaCENTER
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Number of Cars of Coal per day Required for a Hydroelectric powered 20Megawatt Data Center = 0
20MW is not an unusual amount of power for a datacenter in the 150,000 sq. ft. range. Coal produces approximately 100 times the amount of greenhouse gas than hydro does as this graph shows (shown as grams CO2 generated per KWh) .
Nearly all datacenters in North America get their , in fact approximately 70% of all the power in North America is generated from coal and other () producing sources, as the chart above shows. While accounts for 20% of the remainder, we all know the problems with radioactive waste disposal, and the potential for environmental harm, that it creates.
Even those that don’t use coal sourced power are still using older technology that gives them a PUE () rating of between 2 and 3 (PUE = Total Facility Power / IT Equipment Power.) In a world of growing this is a very real problem. is powered by hydroelectric energy, supplied from dams along the Columbia River. Using the latest technology and design, by engineers, gigaCENTER will have a of 1.38, a rating unheard of to date in the . Consider the following. Take a traditional datacenter with a PUE of 2.5 to 3 (not at all uncommon) that is powered by . Remember coal produces 100 times more greenhouse gas (GHG) than hydro does. Now take a hydro powered datacenter with a PUE of 1.38. If you place your business in the first datacenter you are contributing about 200 times the amount of GHG than if you put your business in the latter. gigaCENTER is the latter. Where do you want to put your business?
RackForce is now pre-selling colocation space in gigaCENTER so don’t miss out on this opportunity, phase 1 space is selling out fast. Contact Doug Alder (dalder at rackforce.com) Direct: 1-250-448-2203 or Jay Robinson (jrobinson at rackforce.com) 1-250-717-2340 ext 2303 on our gigaCENTER sales team now to get started.
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