SOURCE: IDES Inc.
December 16, 2008 15:45 ET
Plastics Information Company Goes Green With Natural Cooling, Wind Power
LARAMIE, WY--(Marketwire - December 16, 2008) - Data centers and servers consume vast amounts
of energy in the U.S., and Laramie-based IDES Inc., the leading search
engine provider for the plastics industry, is changing how it operates to
lower its impact on the environment.
The company recently opened its own state-of-the-art, naturally cooled
computer server room at its offices in Laramie, and colocated back-up
servers at Green House Data, a 100 percent renewable energy powered data
center in Cheyenne.
The new server room uses ambient air from the outside to cool their
computer servers, reducing air conditioner use by about 70 percent. The
system also uses warm air generated by the servers to heat the rest of the
building during the winter months.
"For us, advancing the environment while lowering operating costs is good
business," said Mike Kmetz, president of IDES. "Our hope is that companies
both in our community and our industry adopt new energy-saving technologies
too."
As a backup and disaster recovery measure, IDES also colocated servers at
Green House Data. The facility is powered by renewable wind energy
purchased from the local power company's wind farm. Because energy is a top
cost driver for data centers, the high-availability and secure facility is
designed to operate at approximately 60 percent lower energy utilization
per square foot than comparable data centers of the same size.
"We are pleased to see our customers as excited about greening their own
operations as we are," said Shawn Mills, president of Green House Data.
"When five percent of all electricity in the U.S. is consumed by data
centers and servers, companies have a responsibility to drive their energy
consumption down for the environment as well as their bottom line."
On the web: www.ides.com and www.greenhousedata.com
About IDES Inc.
IDES is a plastic materials information management company. The Plastics
Web® from IDES is a website with a vertical search engine connecting tens
of thousands of companies around the globe with plastics content and
technical datasheets from 700 global resin manufacturers. The company
provides custom information management services for nearly all resin
distributors and a number of resin manufacturers. IDES is headquartered in
Laramie, Wyoming, with offices in Europe. For more information, visit
www.ides.com.
About Green House Data
Green House Data is Wyoming's first high-density data center and hosted
computing facility. The company offers the region's lowest cost,
high-availability colocation and managed hosting facility. The company's
green operations deliver a zero carbon footprint facility that is
approximately ten percent less expensive than its competitors. For more
information visit: www.greenhousedata.com