Internode will use best-practice “green” technology in the $3 million data centre it plans for the Adelaide CBD.

Key technology executives from Internode are examining environmentally-friendly initiatives elsewhere in Australia and in the US to identify ways in which it can reduce its carbon footprint.

As well as its corporate commitment to environmental responsibility, Internode’s “green team” is driven by the company’s recent achievement of “CO2-neutral” status after a carbon audit for 2006-07.

Internode launched its second state-of-the-art data centre in central Adelaide in April last year. Group general manager Patrick Tapper said “It becomes a competitive advantage because green initiatives can help reduce our operating costs even if they cost a bit more to set up.”

“At our existing data centres, we have introduced ‘virtualisation’ technology that has reduced power use while improving performance. Along with last year’s carbon audit, that initiative provided an important first step towards eliminating our carbon footprint.”

The company plans to take previous initiatives to a new level with the new data centre. “We are examining a range of options, from purchasing ‘green power' to innovations such as using winter air to cool the data centre. Our people are looking at green data centre developments from around Australia and internationally to identify the best-practice approaches,” he said.

Internode’s next data centre, to open by year-end, will have 160 racks of capacity, in 620 square metres of space, fed by 1.3 megawatts of power with redundant generation capacity.

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