Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT

Inside a woodchip-fired data centre

By Nick Heath, 20 May 2008 17:11

Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it is something of a novel approach to green IT.

Shelves of number-crunching servers at Rackspace Hosting's data centre in Slough will be running on nothing but organic waste, including wood chips, fibre and paper.

The 39,000-server centre will draw power from a combined heat and power plant that uses its natural fuel to generate electricity, hot water and steam.

Here, wood chippings wait to be loaded into the power plant.

Photo credit: Rackspace Hosting

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  1. 1. anonymous

    Burning wood is not green. Wind and Solar power are considered green sources of energy.

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