Hydro66 shortlisted for Data Centre Hosting/Co-location Supplier of the Year at DCS Awards 2017

Hydro66 has been shortlisted for the second year running for Data Centre Hosting/Co-location Supplier of the Year at the DCS Awards 2017. The DCS Awards are organised by Angel Business Communications and the winners will be revealed at a gala evening in London on May 18, 2017.

Hydro66 was delighted to win the DCS award for Colocation & Hosting Provider of the Year in 2016. This years’ nomination is further evidence that more and more companies are realising the economic benefits of locating processing power beside low cost green power.

Since the company’s official opening in late 2015, it has sold over 60% of its initial 3.6MW build. Furthermore, significant client cost reductions came into play from January 1st 2017. The large datacentre energy tax reduction has passed into Swedish law, allowing operators to cut their client electricity bills by around 40%.

Hydro66 has been selected as a finalist for the following key features:

• Over 60% of initial 3.6MW build sold in first year.
• Ground breaking building design with ‘whole wall’ air intakes and 100% free air adiabatic cooling
• Engineered resilience through independent power from diverse generation sources and separated A+B power distribution to client IT
• 100% renewable hydroelectric power located directly adjacent to abundant generation to avoid power transmission losses.
• Design PUE of 1.07

Alex Chiolo, Hydro66 Datacentre Architect, commenting on the shortlisting said 

“Hydro66 selected a colocation data centre site that would embody and support the main concepts of the EU Code of Conduct for Data Center Efficiency. Particularly the core principle that “provisioning of excess power and cooling capacity in the data centre drives substantial fixed losses and is unnecessary.” This goes to the heart of the problem with traditional data centre resilience design, which is extremely prescriptive on exactly how to over-provision M&E equipment. Where Facebook and other sophisticated DC builders see beyond this, we are bringing this thinking to colocation for the first time.”

Editors notes:

The DCS awards are designed to reward the product designers, manufacturers, suppliers and providers operating in data centre arena. The Awards recognise the achievements of the vendors and their business partners alike and this year encompass a wider range of both facilities and information technology award categories designed to address all of the main areas of the datacentre market in Europe.

For more information, please contact:

Andy Long – Director, Strategic Development andy.long@hydro66.com