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By Gemma Simpson

Published: 25 July 2007 13:48 BST

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Sun has literally jumped on the greener data centre bandwagon with their centre in a shipping container.

Sun claims the 'Blackbox' virtualised data centre is greener and cheaper than an average set-up, with 20 per cent more energy efficiency than a traditional air-con cooled centre and only costing around €500,000.

The 20ft by 8ft shipping container (pictured) weighs 9,000kg and can provide 1.5 million gigabytes of disk storage and hold up to 250 Sun Fire CoolThreads T1000 servers.

Click to see more of Sun's Blackbox. But, as Quocirca's Dennis Szubert asked in a recent column, does anyone need a data centre in a box?

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