Network Communications News (NCN) June 2017 | Page 28

GREEN IT
Intelligent industrialisation
of data centres
Lefdal Mine Datacentre (LMD) in Norway, which opened on 10th May 2017, is powered
exclusively by low-cost renewable energy, says Jørn Skaane, LMD’s chief executive.
T
he impressive Lefdal
Mine Datacentre (LMD)
in Norway has an
ambitious vision; it aims
to be the most cost-
effective, secure, flexible, and
green datacentre in Europe.
Rittal has provided the data
centre with its top-of-the-range,
preconfigured, modular and
scalable infrastructure.
At the opening ceremony, Dr.
Karl-Ulrich Köhler, chief executive
of Rittal International, said: ‘The
ongoing digital transformation
will undoubtedly lead to higher
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demand for data centre capacity,
which wil in turn require the
development of more efficient
data centre infrastructure and
services, in other words –
intelligent standardisation. We are
a strong believer in highly efficient
industrialisation; it has been part
of the DNA of our company since
1961, the year Rittal was founded.’
Europe’s greenest data centre
Located on the west coast of
Norway, the giant 120,000m 2 data
centre operates exclusively on