Citi recently designed an award-winning 100,000 square foot datacenter that achieves greater than Tier IV reliability and which also aims for a gold accreditation through the US Green Building Council's LEED scheme.
Citi has an ambition to significantly reduce its greenhouse emissions by 2011 and so has designed the new facility to minimise its environmental impact, for example it incorporates an optimised cooling design to produce 8,183 hours of free cooling per annum (93% of the time). Overall, the new facility provides a total saving of 11,700 tonnes of CO2 per annum compared to a typical datacenter.
One of many innovative solutions employed by the design team was the use of the state of the art simulation capabilities of 6Sigma DC and the Virtual Facility