Company Breaks Ground for Green Website Hosting Center
Ground was broken Thursday on a new website hosting center the company says will be the greenest building of its kind in the world.
pair Networks is building the center at Rainbow Boulevard and Post Road. It will house servers for hundreds of websites from bloggers to non-profit sites from around the world. It will also be a green building. pair Network says it is a 100 percent carbon neutral company.
Data centers like the one being built in the southwest part of the valley account for two percent of the world's energy consumption because it takes so much energy to keep the computer servers cool and because the servers are constantly running. This new building promises to cut that energy use by innovative energy practices and building techniques. Some of the green techniques they're using include on site renewable energy generating, intelligent lighting controls plus recycled, re-used and local building materials.