LARAMIE, Wyo. – December 16, 2008 – Data centers and servers
consume vast amounts of energy in the U.S., and 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, Wyoming, and colocated
back-up servers at Green House Data, a 100 percent renewable energy powered data
center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The new server room uses 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
more companies in 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
| For more information: |
|
Nathan Potter, Marketing Manager
IDES Inc.
Phone:
307-742-9227 ext. 246
Email: pottern@ides.com |
Shawn Mills, President and Founder
Green House
Data
Phone: 866-995-3282
Email: smills@greenhousedata.com |
