Portugal Telecom’s High-Concept Green Data Center

November 11th, 2013
By: Rich Miller

A rainfall storage underline during a new Portugal Telecom information core in Covilha creates a tray around a building that houses a information halls. (Photo: Portugal Telecom)

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In a plain that unfurls underneath Portugal’s largest mountains, about 185 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal Telecom (PT) has set out to do something different. The city of Covilha is home to an desirous new information core plan that seeks to mix on-going architecture, sustainability and a latest in information technology.

The $120 million (90 million Euro) information center, that non-stop in September, houses 6 information halls that any offer 56,000 block feet (520 block meters) of technical space designed to work during a appetite use efficacy (PUE) of 1.25. The whole project, once complete, will underline 4 block-like information core structures travelling 75,500 block meters – about 800,000 block feet.

The PT trickery is built to be sustainable, featuring a sleet H2O collection complement (which forms a tray around a information core building), an on-site photovoltaic solar appetite generation, and a garden with some-more than 600 trees. Portugal Telecom is seeking Gold LEED acceptance for a information core building, and LEED Platinum standing for a trustworthy bureau building.

Covilhã was selected for a plcae given it’s a coldest place in Portugal, with a meridian that will concede PT to use uninformed atmosphere cooling for 99 percent of a year, with chillers approaching to be used 4 days a year.

Making A Statement

“When we designed a Covilhã information centre, we wanted to make certain that sustainability was engrained into a building from a really beginning,” pronounced Zeinal Bava, CEO of Portugal Telecom. “This didn’t only meant carrying fit hardware, it meant a whole infrastructure had to come together in a approach that showed a business that we are as critical about a potency as they are. Covilhã creates a decisive matter in that regard.”

But there’s critical business function within a three-story information core structure. PT non-stop a trickery with 37 launch day clients, including IT services and outsourcing giants Accenture and Wipro and 3 vital banks. PT is charity a full apartment of cloud and information services, with solutions that embody Software as a Service (SaaS), Collaboration as a use (CaaS), Platform as a use (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a use (IaaS).

“Within cloud computing there’s heated foe and so as good as a imagination in connectivity and communication we contingency also contest on sustainability,” pronounced Bava. “The stairs we have taken to be greener than a competitors also capacitate us to be 34 percent softened labelled than a normal cost for reward information centres in Europe. We have left out of a approach to safeguard that we have used heading corner record though even some-more critical is a approach that record was put together.”

This video provides an overview of a Covilha project, a sustainability features, pattern and technology. This video runs about 2 minutes.

Next: A Closer Look during a PT Data Center

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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is a owner and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been stating on a information core zone given 2000. He has tracked a flourishing impact of high-density computing on a appetite and cooling of information centers, and a ensuing pull for softened appetite potency in these facilities.