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The cloud computing arm of Alibaba--AliCloud--officially opened its eighth data center on Tuesday, aiming to set new benchmark in energy-efficiency and data center technologies.
Dedicated for Alibaba's IaaS public cloud offering, Aliyun, the new data center at Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang province is an 11-floor building providing 30,000m2 of floor space.
With five floors of data hall space, the data center has a capacity to hold 50,000 servers. The project is a partnership with local data center facility provider Waton Cloud Data.
"This is not our largest data center, but we've achieved the most technology breakthroughs here," said Jian Wang, CTO at Alibaba Group.
Achieving international standards in PUE and WUE
One of the major breakthroughs is its achievement in energy-efficiency--the lowest energy consumption among the company's other seven data centers.
AliCloud stated that this data center is designed to achieve annual average power usage effectiveness (PUE) lower than 1.3. Since the data center started its operation four months ago, the company recorded an average PUE of 1.27. According to a global survey last year from...