Canberra Data Centre Power Challenge
Macquarie Hosting believes the most significant infrastructure
issue facing Canberra IT executives is data centre power
reliability and efficiency.
As little as five years ago, the average power requirement was
1kW to 3kW per rack. Today, driven by the advent of consolidation,
virtualisation and the growth of new blade servers it's not uncommon
for a typical rack to consume 5kW to 7kW. In some
instances, a high-density blade server implementation can draw 20kW
to 30kW per rack.
Not only do higher density racks have to be reliably powered,
but also the consolidation of this increased power into a smaller
footprint brings significant challenges in dealing with the resultant
heat produced. In an inefficiently designed or sub-scale data centre,
for every watt of power used by IT equipment, it takes another watt
and more to remove the resultant waste heat.
The criticality of business applications, rising power costs
and the high likelihood of further carbon legislation, means that
IT managers must quickly address the reliability and efficiency
of their power and cooling infrastructure. Failure to do so will
leave them exposed to serious service disruptions and significantly
increased delivery costs.
Worldwide there is a shortage of data centre space
capable of handling higher density computing. Data centre space
capable of supporting 500 to 800 watts per square meter is commonplace,
to truly future proof the modern data centre must be capable
of supporting at least 1,500 watts per square meter of
IT power density.
Canberra Data Centre executives face two challenges: a distinct
lack of available data centre space capable of reliably supporting
at least 1,500 watts per square meter and exposure to a single grid,
zero redundancy power supply.
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Macquarie Hosting is Constructing the Solution, a
Purpose Built Canberra Data Centre – Intellicentre 2,
specifically for Government Hosting.
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Our Canberra Data Centre – A new standard
Macquarie Hosting has a long and successful history of servicing
Federal Government and commercial clients. In order to meet the
needs of its Canberra clients, Macquarie Hosting is committed to
constructing and operating Intellicentre 2.
Our aim is to not just build a data centre in Canberra, but to
set a new Australian standard for security, reliability, accreditation
and power efficiency. We are using our knowledge and experience
to build a data centre that will reduce CO2 emissions by 60% to
70% from today’s solutions.
Intellicentre 2 - Data Centre Highlights
- Supporting 2,000 watts per square meter (and greater) IT
power density.
- World’s best practice Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) target
of 1.35.
- Fully redundant and efficient power and cooling, via an
on-site cogeneration – Combined Heat and Power Energy Centre.
- Tier 3 data centre design meeting A/NZ AS 2834 & TIA 942
standards – targeting 99.999% uptime.
- Fully compliant with ASIO T4 physical security requirements.
- DSD accreditation to ‘Highly Protected’ and ‘Restricted’
level of classification.
- Geographically dispersed business continuity assurance via
our Sydney Intellicentre 1.
- 24 x 7 secure client access.
- Multi-carrier access including ICON Data Connection.
- Fully ‘cleared’ staff.
Owned and managed by an organisation with the expertise and confidence
to offer meaningful service level guarantees for government
hosting.
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