Can Plymouth Host a Google Datacentre?

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1. Mark Craddock – Managing Director Flexible Computing Ltd
2.  Flexible Computing -Who Are We?  Digital Plymouth  Connected City  Facilities  Can Plymouth Host a Google Data Centre?
3.  Dedicated IXP  Multiple Carriers ▪ TATA ▪ Apollo  Data Centre(s)  ISPs  ASPs  Co-Location  H20  Last Mile  FTTH
4.  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
5.  Apollo Transatlantic Cable  BudeCable Station  Co-Location Facility  Carrier Agnostic  Dual Redundant Routes  Initial discussions to bring the ‘Apollo’ Brand to Plymouth
6. Bude Cable Station L/S POP Apollo POP Latency - <5 ms London Surrey Plymouth Businesses London Businesses H2O - ISP  <5ms Latency to Docklands  Enables synchronous data replication  <34ms Latency to New York  Enables asynchronous data replication PLINX Plymouth IXP London IXP
7.  TATA Transatlantic Cable  Highbridge Cable Station  Co-Location Facility  Carrier Agnostic  Dual Redundant Route, Poddington, Barnstable  Initial Discussions to provide 10Gb Connectivity to Plymouth
8.  <5ms Latency to Docklands  Enable synchronous data replication  <34ms Latency to New York  Enables asynchronous data replication Highbridge Cable Station L/S POP TATA POP Latency - <5 ms London Surrey Plymouth Businesses London Businesses H2O - ISP PLINX Plymouth IXP London IXP
9.  75% IXPs in Europe < 20Gbs  4 x Redundant 10Gb Links to Plymouth  Bude – Plymouth  Bude – Plymouth  Highbridge – Plymouth  Poddington – Plymouth
10.  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
11.  Peering  H2O  Cable & Wireless  BT  Virgin Media  Mount Wise  TwoFourTwo  Google?  Microsoft?  Amazon?
12.  <5ms Docklands  Data Replication  Disaster Recovery Services  Hosting  Co-Location  Select Most Economical Services for Plymouth ▪ Select High Margin Services
14.  Locations
15.  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.
16.  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
18.  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.
19. 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