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TURNKEY INTERNET UNVEILS MULTIMILLION DOLLAR
GREEN DATACENTER IN NEW YORK’S TECH VALLEY:
Sun Powers “the Cloud” at Former Post Office
ALBANY, NEW YORK (April 18, 2012) — With Earth Day just around the corner and energy efficiency still firmly on the minds of business owners, TurnKey Internet — http://www.turnkeyinternet.net/media — has taken a proactive energy conservation role by purchasing and operating its own state-of-the-art datacenter featuring an array of technologies that ensure an environmentally friendly approach to web- and cloud-hosting services.
The company, which provides hosted IT solutions and cloud computing services to businesses and individuals in more than 100 countries, recently installed an advanced rooftop solar system. Clean, renewable energy from these panels now provides up to 75 percent of the company’s total energy needs.
TurnKey, which purchased a vacant U.S. Post Office for its headquarters, is also awaiting approval on hydropower from the Niagara Falls hydro project through Gov. Cuomo’s “Recharge New York” power program later this month. Through the year-old initiative, which is designed to spur job growth statewide, TurnKey expects to further bolster its overall renewable energy usage and create additional jobs.
“Datacenters use massive quantities of energy,” said TurnKey Internet CEO Adam Wills, noting that his 12,000-square-foot facility consumes more than 1.5 MW of electricity. “Without companies like us taking the initiative, studies have shown that by 2020 our industry will be as big of a polluter as the airline industry.
“By producing our own clean power on-site, we’ve been able to double the size of our local workforce over the past 18 months,” added Wills.
Besides tapping into green energy to run its expansive network of servers, TurnKey has also invested millions of dollars installing state-of-the-art cold containment pods. These energy efficient cooling systems, which provide a secure, clean-room environment for all servers and equipment, use 33 percent less energy to “spot cool” specific heat zones throughout the datacenter.
TurnKey’s facility also features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services.
“Innovative green technologies at our new facility in New York’s Tech Valley have not only helped us become more environmentally responsible, but also placed us on the cutting edge as a cloud services provider offering low-cost, energy-efficient green IT services and solutions,” said Wills.
To celebrate Earth Day and the grand opening of its datacenter, TurnKey Internet is offering $100 cash back, plus 75 percent off for life for each of its cloud-based products.
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About Turnkey Internet
Founded in 1999, Turnkey Internet, Inc. is a leading provider of managed web hosting and IT solutions. Located in New York’s Tech Valley region, Turnkey provides enterprise-class, cloud-based services to customers in more than 100 countries via its Latham, New York datacenter. For more information, call (518) 618-0999 or visit http://www.turnkeyinternet.net/media
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New York Green Datacenter Part 1 2 comments
As most of you reading our blog, and reading our news letters know – TurnKey purchased real estate in 2010, and made a multi million dollar investment into upgrading the facility to serve as our new Head Quarters and primary datacenter here in the heart of New York’s Tech Valley Region. Significant portions of that investment were made specifically towards GREEN technologies, some of which are unheard of in use prior in high capacity datacenters like ours.
In April, we will be sharing with everyone a full video tour, and additional information on these, and other GREEN technologies now behind one of the world’s most advanced, and now GREEN, datacenters!
The new cold containment pod system, as shown in the image to the top left provides the absolute most advanced and efficient cooling capacity for massive datacenters like TurnKey’s – very new technology, we have one of their first deployed solutions world wide direct from the manufacturer (Emerson). More efficient than hot aisle / cold aisle – more efficient than raised floors and forced air, Cold Containment Pods in parallel with our Emerson in-row ‘intelligent’ cooling systems allows spot cooling at a precision level never seen in the industry, lower power consumption and eliminating waste from the typical cooling process found in datacenters.
Here are a couple of photos of our on-premise power generation system, with our own Solar Array! Yes you read that right – we are actually powering racks of servers directly from the Solar Array (of course fed through un-interruptable battery systems, backed up by both hydro-electric based utility and on-site generators). The Sun is literally powering our hosting servers for clients! Unlike other hosting companies, or datacenters that may off-set carbon foot print buying ‘wind energy credits’ or something like that- we are actually producing our own clean energy right on site!
Solar Array View #2 for our New York Datacenter
Solar Array Power Controls
View Of the Solar Array
Stay tuned, for more photos and the video tour in April!
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