The service provider claims the new data centre reduces carbon emissions by 29 per cent compared to the previous data centre.
Mark Jones, technology infrastructure manager at Corporate Express said the data centre comes off the back of its recent office and warehouse relocation.
He said the data centre was built on green IT principles with an emphasis on innovation to maximise energy efficiency and support the company's sustainability objectives.
"The centre includes direct drive air conditioning with variable speeds adjusted to specific requirements, which enables running the facility at higher temperatures compared to traditional data centres.
"We've also used modular 'uninterruptable power supply' technology to provide only the required level of power to each rack unit, minimising passive load and cabling requirements."
Jones said its old facility had capacity challenges and didn't want to move to a temporary data centre before moving to its new corporate headquarters, which prompted the company to virtualise its server environment.
"As a result we were able to reduce the physical server count by over 120 and remove capacity obstacles, which meant we could focus on building a new highly efficient data centre," he said.
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