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BASEFARM REDUCES POWER
CONSUMPTION WITH
CHATSWORTH PRODUCTS
Basefarm, a leading
global IT hosting and
colocation services
provider based in
Norway, has reduced
power consumption and
boosted sustainability in
its mission critical data
centre after selecting a
hot aisle containment
solution from Chatsworth
Products (CPI).
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asefarm, a leading global IT
hosting and colocation services
provider, securely hosts more than
35,000 services and reaches over 40
million end users worldwide in industries
ranging from finance and government, to
media and travel. Planning for an energy-efficient
data centre
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway,
Basefarm offers its customers advanced
technology solutions, high-end cloud
services, application management and
colocation from its six data centres
located throughout Europe. In response
to growing demand for its colocation
services, Basefarm set out to design and
build a green, state-of-the-art data centre
– Basefarm Oslo 5. “Cooling was a key factor in the design, so
we set out to find an airflow containment
and cabinet package that could maximise
the return on our cooling equipment and
provide a thermal solution for all the racks
and cabinets within, while being flexible
and easy to use.”
Ketil Hjort Elgethun, Senior System
Consultant, Basefarm, said: “The brief
for the new site was to create the most
energy-efficient data centre in Oslo.
What Basefarm sought was a customised
cabinet and containment solution, one
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