KPN, the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in the Netherlands was seeking a data center solution. In response to growing customer needs, the company, which oers wireline and wireless telephony, Internet and TV to consumers and end-to-end telecom and ICT services to business customers, wanted to explore new data center operating models. It sought a model that would meet both environmental and cost challenges, while ensuring mission-critical reliability for at least 15 years. To meet those needs, KPN approached KyotoCooling, which implemented four data centers in 2007. “The enormous reduction in the amount of energy required to cool the data center equates to an annual nancial savings of approximately €8.4 million ($12 million),” said Frans Sas, project manager at KPN. “I

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