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It says it will be the first data center in Japan in a container unit cooled all year round by outside air.
NLM ECAL of the Nippon Light Metal Group will develop a container shell, with Toshiba supplying the outside-air cooling equipment, Nohmi Bosai is providing the fire-prevention equipment, and Kawamura Electric providing the racks and power equipment.
They will build a modular data center with a cooling system that directly uses outside air, and operate it for one year starting in February 2010, with the aim of commercialization. IIJ is considering the eco-data center park concept, which would target service providers, such as SI partners and data center operators, to use the facilities.
The company said the outside-air-cooled unit will allow for up to 10 KVA per rack, making it possible to increase the IT device density to as much as three times that of conventional data centers. It has a target PUE of less than 1.2.
The container is expected to deliver a 40% cut in facility costs, cut construction time and lower initial capital investment.
The following benefits are expected: While conducting this test, IIJ will examine the potential for commercialization, it said. The company will begin constructing a commercial system in April 2010 with the goal of putting a data center with 4000 servers into operation by March 2011.
This data center will reduce the facility costs of IIJ's cloud service IIJ GIO by 40%, raising IIJ's cost competitiveness and reducing annual CO2 output by about 4000 tons in comparison with conventional data centers.
'IIJ had been considering the use of a chilled-water-cooled container unit, but with the trend in the United States away from water-cooled systems and towards the more energy-efficient outside-air-cooled systems, they realized that they could not focus solely on one single method geared towards environmental measures and improved power efficiency. They thus decided to embark on this test in order to find the most appropriate method for the installation environment,' it said in a statement.
It says it will be the first data center in Japan in a container unit cooled all year round by outside air.
NLM ECAL of the Nippon Light Metal Group will develop a container shell, with Toshiba supplying the outside-air cooling equipment, Nohmi Bosai is providing the fire-prevention equipment, and Kawamura Electric providing the racks and power equipment.
They will build a modular data center with a cooling system that directly uses outside air, and operate it for one year starting in February 2010, with the aim of commercialization. IIJ is considering the eco-data center park concept, which would target service providers, such as SI partners and data center operators, to use the facilities.
The company said the outside-air-cooled unit will allow for up to 10 KVA per rack, making it possible to increase the IT device density to as much as three times that of conventional data centers. It has a target PUE of less than 1.2.
The container is expected to deliver a 40% cut in facility costs, cut construction time and lower initial capital investment.
The following benefits are expected: While conducting this test, IIJ will examine the potential for commercialization, it said. The company will begin constructing a commercial system in April 2010 with the goal of putting a data center with 4000 servers into operation by March 2011.
This data center will reduce the facility costs of IIJ's cloud service IIJ GIO by 40%, raising IIJ's cost competitiveness and reducing annual CO2 output by about 4000 tons in comparison with conventional data centers.
'IIJ had been considering the use of a chilled-water-cooled container unit, but with the trend in the United States away from water-cooled systems and towards the more energy-efficient outside-air-cooled systems, they realized that they could not focus solely on one single method geared towards environmental measures and improved power efficiency. They thus decided to embark on this test in order to find the most appropriate method for the installation environment,' it said in a statement.