HYDRO66
CEO Anne Graf explains exactly how Hydro66 is able to use its resilient green power model to benefit customers .
She says : “ We offer colocation in quite a different way to traditional operators . In the past , these facilities have been built in large city centres , close to where lots of people are and where the power is really expensive . The reason for this was the hugely expensive cost of telecommunications . However although telecoms costs are a mere fraction of what they were , datacenters continue to be built in city centers .
“ Also they ’ ve essentially been designed in the way that was common to the time , in the 1990s and early part of this century . So what we ’ ve done is identify a much better way , and created a much more efficient design to provide a sustainable green colocation service to the market . Now we are saying to the colocation market “ The Internet giants have worked it out , move data not power ”.
“ We ’ re providing a scale colocation
solution that hasn ’ t been available before , one that more and more companies are seeing that they need to find . We ’ re helping IT budget holders cope with the growth of data , and at a price that makes sense for them and for our planet .”
The founding team for the Hydro66 venture is led by British entrepreneur David Rowe . He was the founder of Easynet , the world ’ s first B2B ISP , which grew to a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars . That business was sold to Sky
54 June 2017