The US-based Internet service provider Google has taken over the weekend
its new data center in Hamina, Finland, in operation. The company has
for 2008 at the 150 km east of Helsinki, bought the building located
site of a former paper factory. Through the rock under the work
introduces a tunnel, is pumped through the cooling water from the nearby
Gulf of Finland. It uses Google to heat exchangers to feed the data
center. This is a lot of electricity can be saved. In addition, Google
is setting a wind turbine to generate electricity, like the Finnish
Yleisradio station reported.
The building of the mill was bought, therefore Google for 40 million
euros to the Finnish-Swedish company Stora Enso. 450 jobs were lost
during the closure of the paper mill. 50 new jobs for Linux
administrators, technical staff and other safety experts are now created
by Google's data. The group has invested 200 million € in Hamina.
Google claims to operate some of the most energy-efficient data centers.
St. Ghislain Google operates in the Belgian example, just over two years
since a data center that does not need any refrigeration. By evaporation
and irrigation of the pre-purified water from an industrial canal where
the warm air from the servers is cooled.
Google is considered the largest operator of the server world, but does
not publish the exact number of his machines. It is estimated that
Google operates with 900,000 to 1 million units around 3 percent of
worldwide server. The company had disclosed last week, its power
consumption [4] and implemented in 2010, therefore approximately 2.26
million megawatt hours of electrical energy. 1.5 percent of worldwide
electricity generated is consumed, according to expert assessments of
data centers.
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