Hitachi Europe and Green Data Systems (GDS) have announced the opening of a highly energy efficient data centre in Deventer, The Netherlands. It will be opened on 23 September this year.

Both firms entered a strategic partnership earlier this year to collaborate on and deploy highly energy efficient data centres.

GDS, one of the investors in the ECO2DC initiative, is planning to develop the most energy efficient data centre in Europe, based in The Netherlands. ECO2DC is a leading data centre services provider aiming to build and operate the most energy efficient data centre in Europe.

GDS pursues energy efficiency in data centres and provides customers with optimal data centre capacity, cooling, managed services, SAN, security, server, software and data storage technology as well as services for green data centres and resellers in European countries such as Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands.

Hitachi's modular type data centres are thought to be an effective solution for energy efficiency.

In 2007, the Hitachi Group launched its energy efficient data centre project, which was driven by the increasing demand for IT equipment and facilities in data centres and the need to lower the environmental impact of this technology.

Hitachi later developed a modular data centre solution, which has been available in Japan since January 2009. The solution optimises the configuration of the cooling units to obtain the highest level of power efficiency in a high-density arranged data centre.