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Better known for its proximity to stunning highland scenery, Inverness is to host a new data centre built to exploit an equally valuable asset – renewable energy.

The result of a £20 million ($29.8 million) collaboration between Alchemy Plus and Microsoft, the 20,000 square feet facility in the town’s Harbour development area is designed to go beyond housing the usual utility computing hardware found in any other rival’s data centre.

According to Alchemy Plus, waste heat extracted from the centre, due to be opened in 2010, will be transferred to neighbouring parts of Inverness to warm properties using an unspecified method. It is not clear that this heat will be cheaper than other sources, but it will be able to claim to be ‘greener’.

It’s great to see new opporunities being created through IT and data centers. Certainly fresh air cooling and other such measures could be deployed to provide an energy efficient data center. I’ll need to read up more.

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