Inside a woodchip-fired data centre
By Nick Heath
Published: 20 May 2008 17:11 GMT
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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.
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