Green Powered Data Centre Farm Planned For Scotland

Internet Villages International 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 reportedly expressed interest in the Lockerbie Data Farm. Work on the Data Farm is expected to start in 2008 and be completed by 2010 and by completion will provide 3 million sq ft of data storage. The developers claim that 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. Renewable energy will be sourced from the nearby E-On UK biomass power station, the largest power station of its type in the UK, and from existing and planned wind generation in Dumfries and Galloway. Waste heat from the farm will provide low cost heating to a planned adjacent eco internet village and to local horticultural businesses. In total there is a planned investment of some GBP 600 million.

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