Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT

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