Fortune Data Centers' new green data center in Silicon Valley.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Fortune Data Centers (www.fortunedatacenters.com) announced on Friday that it has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council (www.ugbc.org) for its San Jose data center.
The company opened the energy-efficient data center in April, with an initial phase of 43,000 fully usable square feet of IT floor space in a 78,000 square foot building.
The data center is one of the largest in Silicon Valley with a power capacity to serve 8MW of critical load for IT infrastructure. It is also the first data center in San Jose to become LEED Gold certified.
According to the press release, there are fewer than five LEED Gold certified data centers operating in the United States.
Fortune says its San Jose facility is the first multi-tenant data center to receive the LEED Gold Certification for 100 percent of the usable tenant space.
LEED is a US-bsed program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.
Fortune was awarded the certification for taking an innovative overhead-down rather than the traditional raised floor-up approach to cooling servers, leading to a Power Usage Effectiveness Rating of 1.37 at full load.
The company re-used materials and recycled waste during the conversion of the facility to data center space, preventing about 96 percent of construction waste to be sent to the landfill.
Fortune invested in highly efficient infrastructure, selecting critical components such as UPS based on their energy-efficiency ratings.
Finally, the company has launched an education campaign with customers to demonstrate how they can benefit from making their IT operations within the Fortune data center facility more energy efficient.
“We’re structuring our business so that customers can enjoy the benefits of LEED-certified data center space without paying a premium for it,” says John Sheputis, CEO of Fortune Data Centers. “We believe companies shouldn’t have to pay extra for energy efficiency, rather they should realize a reduction in costs. Fortune and our tenants are collaborating to maximize efficiencies, and our tenants receive 100 percent of the cost savings that result from saving energy.”
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