Nov 9 2009
Fortune Provides Customers with Energy-Efficient Data Center Space and Shares the Cost Savings with Customers; Extends LEED Gold Benefits to All Tenants at No Additional Charge
Fortune Data Centers, which provides premium efficiency data centers, announced today that the company has earned the prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its San Jose facility. The data center is among the largest in Silicon Valley with a power capacity to serve 8 megawatts of critical load for IT infrastructure and the first LEED Gold certified data center in San Jose.
A review of industry sources suggests that there are fewer than five LEED Gold certified data centers operating in the United States, and Fortune believes its facility is the first multi-tenant data center to receive the LEED Gold Certification for 100% of the usable tenant space. LEED is the nation's preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.
"San Jose has long been recognized as a center of innovation that serves as a model for the rest of the world," said San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. "Fortune Data Centers' new LEED Gold certification will help our city meet its Green Vision goals and I hope their achievement provides inspiration for other businesses to follow."
Fortune was awarded the certification for achievements including:
- Taking an innovative overhead-down rather than the traditional raised floor-up approach to cooling servers, which enables Fortune to save energy and significantly contributes to its Power Usage Effectiveness Rating (PUE) of 1.37 at full load, an energy-efficiency level far superior to the industry average data center PUE of 2.0
- Re-using materials and recycling waste during the conversion of the facility to data center space. According to DPR Construction, approximately 96% of construction waste was diverted from landfill, meaning 1,137 tons of material were either recycled or re-used on site.
- Using regionally sourced and recycled content within construction materials
- Investing in highly efficient infrastructure, selecting critical components such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) based on their energy-efficiency ratings
- Undertaking 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," said 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."
"With data centers expending enormous amounts of energy to power and cool servers and IT infrastructure, we're challenging the industry to move faster and reach further than before in designing, constructing and operating facilities in a more energy-efficient manner," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. "We commend Fortune Data Centers for being leaders in the data center industry by earning LEED Gold Certification and realizing the economic and environmental benefits of green building."
Source: http://www.fortunedatacenters.com/