Central Park gets world's first green internet hub

10 July 2007

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Manchester is to get its first green internet centre. Manchester city council, UKFast.Net and developers Ask:Goodman have teamed up to build the internet hub and hosting facility.

The purpose-built facility will be at Central Park and should be operational in the second half of next year.

It will be the first large-scale green hosting centre in the world and will generate some of its own renewable energy as well as re-using the large amount of heat generated by server computers.

The latest low powered computers will also be installed. Until now, only small scale green hosting sites have been developed in the US.

Simon Bate, director and co-founder of Manchester developers Ask, who are behind the Central Park scheme, said: "This exciting development will be a world first.

"The state-of-the art facilities will be a major boon for high tech businesses location in Central Park and the surrounding areas of north and east Manchester."

Ask and their Australian partners, Macquarie Goodman, say that Central Park is one of the largest urban business parks in the UK. It is already home to computing giant Fujitsu.

Earlier this year, work started on the next phase at Central Park - the third major office development to be built at the 1.4m sq ft site in east Manchester.

The 'village' of five industrial buildings, which will be set around a central landscaped courtyard and total 43, 350 sq ft, is due to be completed in January, 2008.

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