Data centres: the temples of IT
 | By: Bob Tarzey, Service Director, Quocirca Published: 14th September 2009 Copyright Quocirca © 2009 |
Quocirca was recently shown around Equinix's LD4 data centre, which is located west of London and opened in October 2007.
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Just one of Equinix's four uninterrupted power supply units in its LD4 facility contains banks and banks of batteries to power the data centre for just a few minutes. Then eight large oil-powered generators cut in.
But if the power used by mankind's ever growing hunger for computing power is a problem, it is one that co-location providers help mitigate, rather than make worse. If the computer equipment from within a single co-location facility was disaggregated back into many small inefficient data centres, the total power use would be far greater.
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