The CIX project is hurtling along (CIX is a project to build Cork’s first professional data centre).
I have posted photos over on the CIX blog of the mast foundation (160 tonnes of concrete and 5km of rebar steel!), the burying of our data cable ducts and of the installation of our suspended ceiling.
If you are interested in hearing more, I’m giving a talk at BarCamp Dublin about the CIX data centre and our plans around extreme energy efficiency on this coming Saturday.
[Disclosure - I am a director of CIX]
Building has commenced on the CIX data centre - the first fully redundant data centre in Ireland outside of Dublin!
CIX intends to be incredibly energy efficient and has even developed a carbon neutrality strategy document. Watch the CIX blog for more on this.
[Disclosure - I am a director of CIX]
I honestly don’t know if this is possible or if it has been done anywhere but our aim in CIX is to try to build a carbon neutral data centre.
Carbon neutral means that the data centre doesn’t create greenhouse gases and add to the climate change problems the planet is experiencing.
Data centres are notorious for requiring vast amounts of electricity and as we are based in a nuclear-free country, it is difficult to use lots of electricity without producing significant quantities of CO2.
We have a strategy document on how we can achieve this but to get there we need other partners to buy into the idea.
How revolutionary do you think this idea is? Would you put your racks/servers into a carbon neutral data centre over and above a carbon producing one?
Off to Dublin today for a series of meetings - one of which is CIX related. The CIX related meeting is an INEX meeting - should be interesting.
I moved this site onto a new server last night (since my former hosting company told me they no longer wanted my business).
I have to say, it seems to be far faster as a result (not really surprising - there are far fewer sites on this server). Let me know if you come across any problems.
The server is in the new CIX data centre in Cork. CIX is not finished yet but when it is, it will be Ireland’s first fully redundant data centre outside of Dublin
[Disclosure - I am a director or CIX Ltd.]
I have heard it back that the reason for my recent posts about Blacknight is nothing to do with my poor customer service experience but rather because I am trying to bully Blacknight into becoming a customer of CIX!!!
In case anyone else has heard this ridiculous rumour and has put any stock in it let me address it quickly.
First off, anyone who knows Michele (MD of Blacknight), knows that any attempt to bully him into doing anything is definitely not going to work!
Secondly, how does this work anyway? Bully someone into buying something? Surely if I was chasing Michele as a customer for CIX, I would have been singing Blacknight and Michele’s praises on the blog. Not picking up on the failings of Blacknight’s customer service.
Finally, as far as I recall, I only spoke to Michele once about hosting in CIX. This was when I called him to inform him of our intention to build an N+1 data centre in Cork way back in July or August of last year. At the time Michele didn’t express much interest and said he wouldn’t commit to anything but that he may take a rack in the data centre when it had been in operation a year or so and had proven itself. I asked him to forward on any requirements he’d have from a data centre. He never did.
Not exactly a hot prospect so I didn’t think about him much more in relation to CIX as we had far larger prospects to chase.
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