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Full article: Sun Goes for the Green with new Data Centre (21-Aug-07)

Sun will open the doors on 21st August to a new, 76,000-square-foot data center. Company executives believe the new data centre will demonstrate its ability to deliver eco-friendly technology to its customers. The new data center will use about 500KW of electricity compared to the 2MW consumed by older data centres. This will also allow the company to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 4,100 tons every year. The new Santa Clara data centre has been online since June and Sun is also launching similar initiatives in Blackwater, England, and Bangalore, India.

Besides the new data centre, Sun will begin offering a new set of services designed to address issues of power and cooling for customers' data centers. The company will begin offering the new services—Sun Eco Services suite.

Within the service offering, Sun will offer both basic and advanced assessment services for customers' data centers, as well as cooling efficiency and optimization services. Sun is also working with another company, Worldwide Environmental Services, to deliver additional services and plans for rack placement and cooling suggestions for data centers.

"Worldwide Environmental Services specializes in this type of services and whether our customers are looking to build out a data center or build a new data center, we want to offer them optimal amount of eco services that is the best for our customers," Nowack said.

The price of these services starts at about $10,000 for the basic assessment package and can increase up to $30,000 to $40,000 for more advanced services with additional on-site visits by Sun engineers and the company's partners.