Web Host 1&1 Recycles Nuke Fuel Facility as Green Datacenter
A facility once destined for developing nuclear fuel is taking on a whole new life as a green datacenter. Web-host company 1&1 this week announced plans to build one of Europe's largest datacenters within a never-before-used nuclear fuel facility called New MOX. The company will install 100,000 servers across an area of 10,000 square meters in the building, located in Hanau, Germany.
The company pledges that the datacenter, which should be operational come the end of 2009, will be green. For starters, like all 1&1 datacenters, the facility will use electricity only from renewable energy sources. For example, the company will use outside air, also known as air-side economization or free cooling, to chill the datacenter equipment. 1&1 also uses low-energy components within all its servers.
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