IBM plans to renovate a building on its RTP campus in North Carolina to create one of the most technologically advanced and energy efficient data centers in the world. It will will reuse up to 95 percent of an existing building and meet stringent environmental standards.
The project is expected to cost $360 million, and received a $750,000 incentives package from Durham County commissioners this June. The new data center will be the first in the world to be built with IBM's New Enterprise Data Center design principles.
This new RTP data center is a key component in IBM's Project Big Green initiative to dramatically increase energy efficiency in the data center, as companies face escalating energy costs and the requirement to handle a rapidly rising amount of data. It is expected to be a core part of delivering a technology known as cloud computing, harnessing a network of computer systems around the world.
See the full IBM press release here.
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