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UK's largest data centre 'will use renewable power'

26 Nov 2009

Planning permission for the UK's largest data centre has been granted - and it will be powered by renewable energy. Lockerbie Data Centres will be responsible for building the £950 million project, which will create around 3,000 jobs for up to ten years and provide firms on the England-Scotland border with a 250,000 sq m storage facility.

Dumfries and Galloway Council has given the green light to the plan, which will use renewable sources where possible. However, one expert has stated that uptime power is still the vital ingredient and green intentions could be left behind in pursuit of this.

Director of data centre design group Keysource Ltd James Cole said: "If [renewable energy] is going into the data centre and it's unreliable, then maybe that power should be used elsewhere. I think the conversation about renewable power needs to be had alongside a conversation about data efficiency."

Last month Gartner revealed that it believed data centres should be modular in order to allow for future expansion. The technology research firm argued that opening a centre with "huge areas of white floor space" unnecessarily increases costs.

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