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June 8, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed hosting provider Centrinet (centri.net) announced on Thursday that its new underground data center Smartbunker (smartbunker.com) releases zero-carbon energy emissions and provides military grade security.
Built in an old NATO command center, 100 meters below the surface in Lincolnshire, England, Smartbunker runs on wind and water-power energy from renewable energy supplier Ecotricity and uses power-efficient technology like IBM bladeservers, says Centrinet. In fact, Kelly Smith, the managing director of Smartbunker, says the bladeservers running the hosting service are 60 percent more power-efficient than equivalent 1U servers because they share otherwise-wasteful components such as power supplies.
Centrinet adds that Smartbunker's security comes from the fact that the facility was originally built as a radar station and then refitted in the 1980s for NATO use.
Smith says that one of the biggest advantages the company has had with this investment is that it has been able to build it from scratch and ensure that it runs cleanly, efficiently and securely from the very beginning.
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