The Co-operative Group is planning to build a multi-million pound green data centre at its new headquarters in Manchester.
The UK’s largest mutual retailer said the new data centre will support its corporate green strategy. The new facility will incorporate the latest technology, which the company described as “among the most energy efficient systems in the world”. The 4MVA data centre will be designed and built by Sudlows.
The data sector has been working hard to improve its green credentials after it was revealed it has a bigger carbon footprint than the airline industry.
Earlier this week, Facebook offered to will share the design details of its new energy-efficient data centre with competitors. The social networking company claims it is trying to encourage industry-wide collaboration around best practices for data centre and server technology.
Colin Bennett, head of change and delivery at the Co-operative Group, said: “The Sudlow design team’s solution offers low PUE (power usage effectiveness) aspirations and high tier levels to provide the Co-operative Group with increased efficiencies in system operation, redundancy, modularity and delivery to the project programme. This reduces the carbon footprint of the project not only in operation but also in construction.”
The data centre is expected to be operational by summer this year.
