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IBM has opened a new data centre that it says uses half the energy of most centres of its size.
The 100,000 square feet facility in North Carolina has been built to cater for businesses that are demanding cloud computing models.
One way in which the IBM data centre is saving energy is by using air from outside to cool the equipment, using intelligent systems to monitor the temperature and humidity.
The networking industry news was welcomed by Governor Bev Perdue, who described the facility as "one of IBM's greenest data centers in the world".
The new centre, which has been built for further expansion in the future, is just one of over 450 that IBM has around the world and the company says that, by providing cloud computing infrastructure,it can reduce client's hardware needs by up to 70 per cent.
A recent report from Frost & Sullivan suggested that greener ways of achieving server rack cooling were becoming popular as businesses tried to tighten their budgets.
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Last Updated: 05/02/2010 17:14
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