digital plymouth - can we host a google data centre?
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Mark Craddock – Managing DirectorFlexible Computing Ltd
Flexible Computing - Who Are We? Digital Plymouth Connected City Facilities Can Plymouth Host a Google Data Centre?
Dedicated IXP Multiple Carriers
▪ TATA▪ Apollo
Data Centre(s) ISPs ASPs Co-Location
H20 Last Mile FTTH
Fibre Ring All City Business Parks
▪ Tamar Business Park▪ Technology Park▪ +South Hams Energy Park
Major Businesses / Education▪ TwoFourTwo▪ NHS▪ City Council▪ University
Local Development Framework▪ Eastern Corridor
Redundancy
Apollo Transatlantic Cable
Bude Cable Station
Co-Location Facility
Carrier Agnostic
Dual Redundant Routes
Initial discussions to bring the ‘Apollo’ Brand to Plymouth
Bude
Cable Station
L/SPOP Apollo POP
Latency - <5 ms
London Surrey
PlymouthBusinesses
LondonBusinesses
H2O - ISP
<5ms Latency to Docklands Enables synchronous data replication
<34ms Latency to New York Enables asynchronous data replication
PLINX
PlymouthIXP
London IXP
TATA Transatlantic Cable
Highbridge Cable Station
Co-Location Facility
Carrier Agnostic
Dual Redundant Route, Poddington, Barnstable
Initial Discussions to provide 10Gb Connectivity to Plymouth
<5ms Latency to Docklands Enable synchronous data replication
<34ms Latency to New York Enables asynchronous data replication
Highbridge
Cable Station
L/SPOP TATA POP
Latency - <5 ms
London Surrey
PlymouthBusinesses
LondonBusinesses
H2O - ISP
PLINX
PlymouthIXP
London IXP
75% IXPs in Europe < 20Gbs 4 x Redundant 10Gb Links to Plymouth
Bude – Plymouth
Bude – Plymouth
Highbridge – Plymouth
Poddington – Plymouth
Apollo
Provides connection to Docklands
Peers with xx ISPs
Peers with Google
TATA
Provides connection to Surrey House
Peers with xx ISPs
Peers with Google
Peering H2O
Cable & Wireless
BT
Virgin Media
Mount Wise
TwoFourTwo
Google?
Microsoft?
Amazon?
<5ms Docklands
Data Replication
Disaster Recovery Services
Hosting
Co-Location
Select Most Economical Services for Plymouth
▪ Select High Margin Services
Locations
How much does Google spend on data centres?
According to Google’s earnings reports, they spent $1.9 billion on data centres in 2006, and $2.4 billion in 2007.
Google unveiled four new data centre projects in 2007. Each has a cost estimate of $600 million, which will include everything from construction to equipment and computers.
All less than 1.3 Achieved by rigorous application of best practices: Air-side economization Water-side economization Close coupled cooling
99.9% UPS efficiency Distributed on-board UPS Single voltage motherboard (12v) Motherboard provides 5v to disk and all step downs needed by on
board requirements Installed a lead-acid distributed UPS to ride through power sags Avoids double conversion of many central UPS Only enough power in UPS to allow generators to start or to switch to
other A/C supply Best Google facility on quarterly basis: PUE => 1.19
How much energy do Google data centres use, exactly? Google’s major data centres are supported by at least 50 megawatts of electric power, with
some estimates ranging as high as 103 megawatts - which is what Harpers magazine guesses is the power load for Google’s data centre in The Dalles, Oregon. We suspect that estimate is slightly high, as it assumes 500 watts per square foot across the total footprint of the facility –which includes both technical and non-technical space.
By any measure, Google uses a boatload of power. The company has sought to avoid disclosing its power usage in its data centres. Prior to Google’s announcement of its Pryor, Oklahoma project, state legislators passed a law exempting municipal power companies from the requirement to report the amount of power used by their largest industrial customers.
There are other data centre complexes that use more power than Google’s facilities. Digital Realty Trust has a facility in Chicago that has a 100 megawatt power feed, and a data centre campus in Ashburn, Virginia that is wired for 225 megawatts.
Requirement Can we meet it?
Large volumes of cheap electricity.Green energy. Focuses on renewable power sources.
Plymouth has a new power station outputting 875MW
YES
Proximity to rivers and lakes. They use a large amount of water for cooling purposes.
Plymouth is surrounded by water.Other high tech facilities have direct pipelines into the local reservoir
YES
Large areas of land. Allows for more privacy and security. Plenty of land
YES
The distance to other Google data centres (for fast connections between data centres).
Plymouth will be connected directly into the transatlantic internet connections with a <5ms latency to docklands
YES
Tax incentives. There is some funding available, but limited.
NO