By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
September 2, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center research organization the Uptime Institute (uptimeinstitute.org) has given the United Parcel Service's (ups.com) Windward data center a Green Enterprise IT Award based on the facility's energy conservation measures including natural cooling.
Located in Alpharetta, Georgia, the Windward UPS facility won the "Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure (Power and Cooling) Overhead" category in the inaugural Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Awards to be awarded every year.
According to a report from TMCnet (tmcnet.com), UPS's energy efficient data center includes two centrifugal chillers providing 2,000 tons of cooling and two absorption chillers providing an additional 800 tons each. More importantly, the center boasts a 650,000-gallon thermal storage tank thatdissipates heat cost effectively and provides 20 hours of emergency cooling.
Since 2000, the UPS facility had a "plate-and-frame" heat exchanger, also known as "water-side economizing," a process that uses outside air to cool its water cooling, allowing data centers to turn off chillers for as much as seven months of the year. According to TMCnet, the facility shut down its chillers on October 11 and did not turn them back on until May 18, 2008. Its annual energy savings are an estimated 1,440,000 kilowatts, saving up to $100,000 and reducing carbon emissions by 1,000 tons.
UPS was among seven companies winning Uptime Institute awards, including Sun, AOL, NetApp, the Bank of Montreal, Hewlett Packard and Nationwide Mutual Insurance.
HP alone won awards in the IT Strategy category for Implementation and in the Green IT Beyond the Data Center for Implementation and Innovation.
According to the organization, the Uptime Institute's Green Enterprise IT awards recognize organization that are "actively and profitably pioneering energy efficiency improvements in their data centers." As a secondary function, the awards "recognizes the greening of IT through enabling software applications or management initiatives where the energy savings occur outside the data center?like telecommuting or airline or truck delivery scheduling as well as through more energy efficient desktops, laptops and other devices not housed in data center environments."
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