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Hurricane Electric expands its largest datacenter
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 05 November 2009, 18:52 IST
California: Colocation and Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric has completed building out the third phase of one of its two datacenters in Fremont, California. The company received a financial incentive for the project from PG&E, a large utility serving San Francisco and a substantial portion of Silicon Valley that gives large rebates to datacenters (and other commercial buildings) for deploying solutions and methodologies that increase their energy efficiency.
The new space in the 208,000-square-foot datacenter (a former Apple manufacturing facility) measures 24,000 square feet and has a power capacity of 3 MW. Its energy efficiency features include its UPS system, HVAC and cold-aisle/hot-aisle containment.
The UPS system is an Eaton 9395, which allows for 99 percent energy efficiency in the Energy Saver mode, according to Hurricane Electric. The rooftop McQuay Maverick II HVAC system features variable-frequency drives, powered exhaust and a 100 percent economizer mode.
Hurricane Electric provides Ipv6-native Internet backbone and operates a total of three datacenters. The second Fremont datacenter measures about 45,000 square feet. The company's third facility is in San Jose, and provides about 3,000 square feet of datacenter floor.
