Sun Deploys Three New Datacenters

Sun Microsystems today publicly unveiled three active, new datacenters in Santa Clara, California; Blackwater, U.K.; and Bangalore, India, as part of the company's ongoing commitment to greening its global operations. Put into operation between January and June of this year, all three datacenters were built using breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient systems, power and cooling. Sun estimates that the company's datacenter efforts will save the planet nearly 4,100 tons of CO2 per year and trim 1% from Sun's total carbon footprint.

The Santa Clara datacenter is the largest of the three datacenters at 76,000 square feet. Phase One of the Santa Clara project began with a hardware consolidation and refresh project that took three months, increased compute power by more than 450% and is expected to save $1.1 million in energy costs a year. Accomplished in an aggressive 12 months, phase Two involved designing the Santa Clara space and installing the new hardware. Sun estimates that Phase Two will yield an additional 30% savings in energy costs. Silicon Valley Power, a local utility company, has recognized the breakthrough efficiencies and design of Sun's Santa Clara datacenter by giving Sun nearly $1 million in rebates and awards.

The three new datacenters run exclusively on Sun's line of energy efficient products, including Sun Fire(TM) T1000/T2000 servers, Sun's x64 servers and the Solaris(TM) Operating System. Today Sun also announced a suite of programs and solutions under its Eco Innovation(SM) Initiative to help customers architect more energy efficient datacenters and save money.