UPS Is Delivered Green Award

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. (more…)

Tags: cooling, data center, energy efficiency, UPS, Uptime Institute