GENERAL

Eco-efficiency is good for the environment – but also cost-effective!

Academica’s eco-efficient colocation and hosting services provide both corporate and carrier customers with award-winning technology, mission-critical availability, eco-friendly status and safe yet manageable locations.

The eco-efficient Data Center relies on the usage of both district cooling and district heating. By using these unique production methods Academica’s Data Centers are able to achieve a power usage effectiveness (PUE) never seen before.

Academica’s concept was awarded the Green Enterprise IT Award by Uptime Institute in May 2010, and Finnish Tekes Green IT award in January 2011.

The sites have gained significant public interest and multiple foreign media crews have visited them in 2010 and 2011.

The first Data Center site using district cooling entered production in July 2010. The second and the larger site in Suvilahti was entered production phase in September 2011. Due to the great demand of eco-efficient hosting facilities Academica is currently actively scouting locations for new sites and already planning to expand its offering with new sites already in 2012.

In addition to the eco-efficient production customers are offered with mission critical SLA-levels, ample amounts of Dark Fiber and secure locations. Eco-efficiency does not only mean image benefits but also equals concrete savings in the total life cycle costs. Traditionally nearly 80% of Data Center site life-cycle costs are based on energy consumption – with Academica you can do more with less energy!

Excellent Power Usage Effectiveness

Academica uses district cooling in which manufacturing costs are 80% less than in using electricity based cooling solutions. On top of that as Academica returns the excess heat into Helsinki’s district heating network all servers literally provide citizens of Helsinki with warm water.

Eco-efficiency in three dimensions:

1. District cooling consumes only 0,125 units of direct electricity for producing 1 unit of cooling energy

2. Approximately 70% of excess heat can be utilized upon return to the district heating network – continuously

3. By measuring and reporting the energy consumption phase by phase it is easy and lucrative to exploit the energy saving capabilities of the servers in use

Redundant production

Based on customer needs, Academica offers suites achieving either Tier III or Tier IV classification (Uptime Institute classification).

The cooling infrastructure on sites is duplicated or triplicated with redundant pipings, cool water batteries with booster pumps and emergency inlets from district service water.

The electrical distribution infrastructure is made redundant with the use of separate main electricity inputs, redundant switches, uninterruptible power supplies, battery banks and diesel-generators. Every component is at the bare minimum N+1 redundant.

Academica’s Data Centers are connected to Academica’s wholly owned 10 Gbps IP/MPLS network redundantly. Academica also provides CWDM and Dark Fiber services to tenants. Most significant telecommunications providers are also able to supply circuits to the Data Centers.

Security and facility management services are operated on a 24/7/365 basis. The customers are able to enter and exit sites using their own access controls.