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Green IT

An energy efficient IT is one that also is cost efficient.

In October 2010 Macquarie Telecom announced an $60M investment to build the greenest data centre in Australia in North Ryde, NSW. This new facility, known as Intellicentre 2, will utilise best practices and latest technology to ensure we can achieve a low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), the default industry benchmark.

Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and IT energy consumption in our Intellicentre to establish a low carbon footprint hosting environment. We are:

  • Measuring and monitoring what impacts power management and metrics in our Australian Data Center.
  • Working to understand where the power is going and how to better manage this – e.g. in some large Data Centres storage uses 30-40% of the power consumption.
  • Sorting through the "vendor hype" around "green IT" and "green technology" in order to understand which technologies actually make an impact – e.g. enterprise virtualisation, server architectures, rack and cooling options and impact of perforated rack doors.
  • Using racks incorporating iPAMM technology to replace existing racks.
  • Understanding what Green Servers actually mean
  • As an example idle processors consume power; and between the hours of 1am - 6am most corporate server processors are idle. So we focus on reducing number of idle processors at night (e.g. via benefits of enterprise virtualisation) and focus on vendor hardware that uses less power when processors are actually idle ("Green Servers"), allowing us to move toward a "Green Data Centre"
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