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A new data centre in Helsinki will use heat produced from the facility to heat homes across the city, it has been reported.
According to the Times, the data centre is being built in an old bomb shelter underneath Uspenski Cathedral, and will use water from the Baltic Sea to cool it down.
Helsinki already has a system whereby boiling water is piped to houses to heat them up, so the heated water from the data centre will perform a similar function.
Juha Sipila, the project manager for Helsingin Energia, which will operate the system, told the Times: "This will be the greenest and most energy-efficient data centre in the world."
The innovation in Finland follows moves by organisations around the world to find green solutions to the cooling of their data centre.
In Bristol, the council's latest data centre uses water from a nearby moat to cool it down, while HP's new facility in the north-east keeps its server racks cool by using cold air from outside.
Even smaller networking solutions are integrating green credentials, such as D-Link's green switches.
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Last Updated: 12/02/2010 16:07
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