By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
October 21, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — US investment bank Morgan Stanley (www.morganstanley.com) is planning a £250 million to £300 million off-grid data center in northern Scotland directly powered by tidal energy from Atlantis Resource Corporation (www.atlantisresourcescorporation.com) turbines harnessing the power of waves.
According to a Monday announcement from Singapore-based tidal current turbine developer Atlantis, the first series of turbines will be operational by 2011, powering the data center’s 150 MWh power requirement, equivalent to that needed to power a city the size of Bristol with a population of roughly a half million.
According to a statement, Morgan Stanley hopes to attract large customers such as Google (www.google.com), which have quickly growing capacity needs. Google, itself, has already been looking into powering its own data centers with waves, recently filing a patent for a “water-based data center” that uses ocean waves to power and cool the facility.
Atlantis and Morgan Stanley said they need to secure planning permission before starting the project located in Scotland’s Pentland Firth, a strait separating the Orkney Islands from the north shore of the Scottish mainland. The region has huge tidal energy potential with tides among some of the fastest in the world, with 16 knots speeds reported in some areas.
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