Lockerbie gets internet Data Farm and village
Internet Villages International (IVI) plans to build the world's first green powered Data Farm on the outskirts of Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. On a 140 acre site, the Data Farm will consist of approximately 20 Data Centres, which accommodate computer systems or servers. Increasingly businesses and public sector organisations are moving these facilities out of their offices and into separate purpose-built Data Centres where the equipment is maintained under optimum conditions and managed by specialists. Several Fortune 500 multi-national companies have already expressed interest in the Lockerbie Data Farm.
Isle of Man-based developer Peter Hewkin has claimed that the site will be an environmentally friendly 'data farm', which would become the first of its kind in the world. Furthermore, he claimed 700 homes would be created as part of the plans, according to The Scotsman. Already the plans have received support at local council level, with planning consent to be requested next year.
* By completion the Lockerbie Data Farm will provide 3m sq ft of data storage, so will be the largest of its kind in the world.
* Work on the Data Farm is expected to start in 2008 and be completed by 2010.
* Organisations locating their Data Centre at the Lockerbie Data Farm will be able to declare significant carbon reductions as well as making major cost savings.
* Lockerbie Data Farm buildings will be purpose-built for client organisations, so improving energy efficiency.
* Renewable energy will be sourced from the nearby E-On UK biomass power station, the largest such power station in the UK, and from existing and planned wind generation in Dumfries and Galloway.
* Data Centres are usually built in urban areas or business parks and the considerable waste heat produced is vented to the atmosphere. In contrast, the waste heat from the Lockerbie Data Farm will provide low cost heating to a planned adjacent eco internet village and to local horticultural businesses. This project represents a world first for Scotland.
* This £600m investment will result in the creation of 500 jobs in the area.
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