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“ Through these flywheels , in fifteen seconds we can have enough power to power the building before the diesel engines have even started ,” he says . “ We are saving around a half of the energy that a battery would use .”
As a colocation data centre provider , SAK is ahead of the game . The company is the only colocation data centre in East Switzerland , with the nearest colocation data centres being in the city of Zurich . As the data centre market in Switzerland begins to set its sights on colocation , Baumgärtner is all too aware that for bigger companies , choosing a data centre in Zurich is the preferable choice . It is the smaller companies that SAK looks to work with .
“ These smaller companies don ’ t want to drive to Zurich just to change a hard drive and maintain IT equipment ,” he says . “ That ’ s why we started with just a 900-sq . m area of white space , which in essence is just a server room .” That white space is part of the sell for SAK . As companies choose to work with SAK , the company will continue to sell its server space but leave 10 % of that space spare . Why ? So that when these existing customers look to expand , they can do so in their current data centre space and not pack up and seek a different location .
“ Companies here can either restructure their entire IT infrastructure , or choose to build their own DC and outsource it to an IT company based in Zurich ,” says Baumgärtner .
“ Or they can run their own data centre in a very professional , local , colocation data centre . We could be that data centre .”
The other major issue for any data centre provider is efficiency . SAK set out to create an efficient data centre from the outset and other data centre providers struggle on this front . Most data centres are built and operating before the owners look to change that efficiency , which proves to be a challenge .
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