05 February 2024

Teledata’s new Manchester data centre is being developed with heat re-use capabilities as part of the company’s wider sustainability strategy. The scheme will see Teledata’s new facility harness waste heat for conditioning, reuse, and delivery to local projects in Wythenshawe.

The system is being designed so that heat exchangers can be used to transfer the thermal load of the data centre cooling loop to a local community heating network via a heat pump system, which will reduce the amount of energy needed to deliver the required data centre cooling operation. The new facility is targeting a PUE of 1.2.

The new data centre (MCR2) is being developed next door to Teledata’s existing facility and the most up to date sustainability best practices and standards are being embedded across all parts of the build process, from design to implementation.

In addition, the facility will be powered using clean energy from renewable sources with green certificates and solar PV roof panels. The PV system will generate over 83,000kWh/yr with a CO2 emissions reduction of over 7.4 tonnes annually. A chilled water-cooling system with free cooling technology will be adopted and renewable HVO (hydrogenated vegetable oil) biofuels will fuel the emergency generators. The new data centre has been specifically designed to handle an external ambient temperature of 40+°C, to help mitigate climate change risks related to extreme heat.

The new site involves demolishing the existing building and designing a newer, more modern, energy efficient facility. The data centre facility will offer over 50,000 sq ft of enterprise-grade colocation space with 2N power redundancy, 100% 24/7 uptime, ISO27001 certification and NSI Gold Approved BS5979 security. n