As India is struggling with energy shortage

To operate a major data center in the Indian city of Chennai company NTT Communications uses only green electricity. It generates a large wind power plant. This is the first data center in India, which received the eco-certificate LEED. He was awarded the Gold category. And already in the plans of NTT Communications translate into "green" energy is another large data center in Bangalore.

Chennai — the cities in the South of India, it ranks sixth in terms of population and is the administrative centre of Tamil Nadu. Due to the rapid population growth and demand for electricity generating capacity of the city was at the limit of their possibilities. City officials have implemented new rules, under which large consumers are obliged to limit the use of electricity. Thus, for data center transition to wind energy has become a necessary step. Given the climatic zone in which is located the data center (the average annual temperature is 29 C), the cooling costs of servers becomes prohibitive.

The high cost of fuel, deterioration of the Central power grid and the new laws made by the Indian company to pay attention to the wind turbines.

The head of the company says: "After calculations have been made, we came to the conclusion that our area is economically profitable to use wind energy. After weighing all the pros and cons, we concluded a contract with Indian Corporation InterOcean, which has already built ten wind farms in our state. The cost of this electricity cost by 13 percent cheaper in comparison with tariffs of utility companies in the state, besides the energy is supplied without interruption".

Renewable energy is the way of the future. And NTT Communications is not the only company that think so. Another major Indian company engaged in software development Zoho Corporation, is already building its own wind farm in Chennai, to power the data center. It is expected that by the end of this year it will begin to operate.published

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

Source: zeleneet.com