Hewlett-Packard opens wind-cooled data center

Hewlett-Packard Co. has opened a data center in England that is completely cooled by wind power.

It’s a 360,000-square-foot center planned and started for Electronic Data Systems, the Texas business HP bought in 2008 for $13.9 billion. Data centers, which contain huge numbers of servers and other sensitive gear, require careful temperature control. Four huge fans, nearly 7 feet across, pull in cool air to regulate the climate in the center.

Since the center is in Wynyard, in Northern England close to the coast between Middlesbrough and Newcastle, it will get plenty of cool air from the nearby North Sea.

Jeremy Kirk, of IDG News Service, who visited the facility and reported the news, calls it a “blustery and chilly area.”

Hewlett-Packard is based in Palo Alto and is led by CEO Mark Hurd, who is also chairman of its board of directors

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