US company VMWare has just launched an interesting new data centre in Washington State to consolidate its many smaller data centre and computer roon facilities. One of the things that interests me most is that not only is it an energy efficicent data centre with an implied PUE of 1-2 - 1.5, it recycles the wast heat from the servers to heat the offcie space. This gives it a double whammy which provides an energy saving of $5m a year on its 61,000 sq ft of space.
Interestingly, the next best pricing model was a coal-fired data centre in Oklahoma, which VMWare "shuddered at"....