Mark Craddock – Managing DirectorFlexible Computing Ltd

Flexible Computing - Who Are We? Digital Plymouth Connected City Facilities Can Plymouth Host a Google Data Centre?

Dedicated IXP Multiple Carriers

▪ TATA▪ Apollo

Data Centre(s) ISPs ASPs Co-Location

H20 Last Mile FTTH

Fibre Ring All City Business Parks

▪ Tamar Business Park▪ Technology Park▪ +South Hams Energy Park

Major Businesses / Education▪ TwoFourTwo▪ NHS▪ City Council▪ University

Local Development Framework▪ Eastern Corridor

Redundancy

Apollo Transatlantic Cable

Bude Cable Station

Co-Location Facility

Carrier Agnostic

Dual Redundant Routes

Initial discussions to bring the ‘Apollo’ Brand to Plymouth

Bude

Cable Station

L/SPOP Apollo POP

Latency - <5 ms

London Surrey

PlymouthBusinesses

LondonBusinesses

H2O - ISP

<5ms Latency to Docklands Enables synchronous data replication

<34ms Latency to New York Enables asynchronous data replication

PLINX

PlymouthIXP

London IXP

TATA Transatlantic Cable

Highbridge Cable Station

Co-Location Facility

Carrier Agnostic

Dual Redundant Route, Poddington, Barnstable

Initial Discussions to provide 10Gb Connectivity to Plymouth

<5ms Latency to Docklands Enable synchronous data replication

<34ms Latency to New York Enables asynchronous data replication

Highbridge

Cable Station

L/SPOP TATA POP

Latency - <5 ms

London Surrey

PlymouthBusinesses

LondonBusinesses

H2O - ISP

PLINX

PlymouthIXP

London IXP

75% IXPs in Europe < 20Gbs 4 x Redundant 10Gb Links to Plymouth

Bude – Plymouth

Bude – Plymouth

Highbridge – Plymouth

Poddington – Plymouth

Apollo

Provides connection to Docklands

Peers with xx ISPs

Peers with Google

TATA

Provides connection to Surrey House

Peers with xx ISPs

Peers with Google

Peering H2O

Cable & Wireless

BT

Virgin Media

Mount Wise

TwoFourTwo

Google?

Microsoft?

Amazon?

<5ms Docklands

Data Replication

Disaster Recovery Services

Hosting

Co-Location

Select Most Economical Services for Plymouth

▪ Select High Margin Services

Locations

How much does Google spend on data centres?

According to Google’s earnings reports, they spent $1.9 billion on data centres in 2006, and $2.4 billion in 2007.

Google unveiled four new data centre projects in 2007. Each has a cost estimate of $600 million, which will include everything from construction to equipment and computers.

All less than 1.3 Achieved by rigorous application of best practices: Air-side economization Water-side economization Close coupled cooling

99.9% UPS efficiency Distributed on-board UPS Single voltage motherboard (12v) Motherboard provides 5v to disk and all step downs needed by on

board requirements Installed a lead-acid distributed UPS to ride through power sags Avoids double conversion of many central UPS Only enough power in UPS to allow generators to start or to switch to

other A/C supply Best Google facility on quarterly basis: PUE => 1.19

How much energy do Google data centres use, exactly? Google’s major data centres are supported by at least 50 megawatts of electric power, with

some estimates ranging as high as 103 megawatts - which is what Harpers magazine guesses is the power load for Google’s data centre in The Dalles, Oregon. We suspect that estimate is slightly high, as it assumes 500 watts per square foot across the total footprint of the facility –which includes both technical and non-technical space.

By any measure, Google uses a boatload of power. The company has sought to avoid disclosing its power usage in its data centres. Prior to Google’s announcement of its Pryor, Oklahoma project, state legislators passed a law exempting municipal power companies from the requirement to report the amount of power used by their largest industrial customers.

There are other data centre complexes that use more power than Google’s facilities. Digital Realty Trust has a facility in Chicago that has a 100 megawatt power feed, and a data centre campus in Ashburn, Virginia that is wired for 225 megawatts.

Requirement Can we meet it?

Large volumes of cheap electricity.Green energy. Focuses on renewable power sources.

Plymouth has a new power station outputting 875MW

YES

Proximity to rivers and lakes. They use a large amount of water for cooling purposes.

Plymouth is surrounded by water.Other high tech facilities have direct pipelines into the local reservoir

YES

Large areas of land. Allows for more privacy and security. Plenty of land

YES

The distance to other Google data centres (for fast connections between data centres).

Plymouth will be connected directly into the transatlantic internet connections with a <5ms latency to docklands

YES

Tax incentives. There is some funding available, but limited.

NO