Wednesday, Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJI) said that it will conduct proof-of-concept testing for building an environmentally friendly data center for the cloud computing age in cooperation with Toshiba Corp. (TOSBF.PK), NLM ECAL Co., Ltd. of the Nippon Light Metal Group, Nohmi Bosai Ltd., and Kawamura Electric Inc.
They will build a modular data center with a cooling system that directly uses outside air, and operate it for one year starting in February 2010, with the aim of commercialization. This will be the first data center in Japan with a container unit cooled all year round by outside air.
While conducting this test, IIJ will examine the potential for commercialization. The company will begin constructing a commercial system in April 2010 with the goal of putting a data center with 4000 servers into operation by March 2011. This data center will reduce the facility costs of IIJ's cloud service IIJ GIO by 40%, raising IIJ's cost competitiveness and reducing annual CO2 output by about 4000 tons in comparison with conventional data centers. IIJ is considering the eco-data center park concept, which would also enable other service providers, such as SI partners and data center operators, to use the facilities.
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