Thursday, November 27, 2008

Datacentre to heat local swimming pool

Although this may seem to be a bit of a strange story to post i read about this and thought it was very interesting, and a little strange. HSBC have recently announced that they have submitted an application to build an environmentally friendly £300m data centre in North Yorkshire. Now although this doesn’t seem too strange the fact that the excess heat that will be produced from this data centre, the largest and most important centre facility in the world, will heat a local swimming pool which is nearby. The centre will be a key location to deal with the processing of banking transactions.

The centre will take two years to be built and will have 100 staff occupying it. However, this is all subject to planning permission being granted. Less than 25% of the site will actually be built on and the rest will be used to enhance the local wildlife and ecological habitats.

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