Online auction giant eBay Inc. Thursday opened its largest data center in Salt Lake City, with Bloom Energy servers providing the primary power supply
The newest data center is adjacent to a facility built in 2010.
According to the company, the facility will be critical in achieving its target of enabling $300 billion in commerce volume by 2015.
The data center will be the first facility of its kind in the world to use Bloom Energy Servers as on-site, primary power. “It tangibly advances our vision for a more environmentally sustainable commerce future,” the company wrote in its environmental blog.
The company also worked with Dell and HP on state-of-the-art technology for servers.
The Bloom fuel cells are expected to result in approximately 49 percent less CO2 emissions than the first-phase data center while reducing the risk of outages.
Another project from eBay aims to capture head from the natural gas pipeline that powers the Bloom servers to provide additional electricity.
The company is investing in an alternative energy company that convert the waste heat to electricity.
Bloom has launched production of energy servers at a plant in Newark on the University of Delaware campus. The servers are being employed at Delmarva Power sites to provide alternative energy under a deal with the state.
The added cost of that energy, which is paid by Delmarva Power customers, has become an issue in the state.
