APC signed a partnership with Internet Villages International (IVI) to form a team to deliver 'ecologically designed, modular, scalable, data centers for sustainable operation.'

APC will bring its power and cooling expertise and combine its efforts with 'a data center specialist focused on environmental sustainability and sympathetic rural development.'

Under the terms of the Partnership, APC by Schneider Electric will provide the technology and infrastructure for the standardised IVI data center architecture. The standardised solution incorporates APC's hardware and management software and will be combined with pre-engineered, pre-assembled and tested elements for the data center facility.

The pre built solution will be used on the ALBA1 project, located on a site near Ecclefechan in SW Scotland, and the companies plan to then bring it to market globally.
The first phase of ALBA1 project comprises of circa 125 acres of data center development in campus form which will be owned and operated by several different organisations.

Tony Day, Global Director for Datacentre Projects and Services for APC by Schneider Electric said, "This Strategic Business Partnership is an exciting opportunity for both organisations to develop the next generation of modular scalable datacentres in a genuinely sustainable environment".

IVI's Chairman, Peter Hewkin added "Both companies believe that their joint commitment combined with a broad set of capabilities and a strong customer focus will enable us to set a new benchmark standard for datacentre efficiency and deliver real value to our clients worldwide".