EoW November 2013

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€90m investment in Europe’s largest data centre

vast employment opportunities within the region, labelling Covilhã as a major contributor to Portugal’s economic development. The event highlighted the culmination of Portugal Telecom’s transformation, positioning Covilhã’s leadership status as one of Europe’s safest and successful data centre operations. Portugal Telecom – Portugal Website : www.telecom.pt Conference highlight Miltec UV will be highlighting its MPI-400 UV curing system at November’s IWCS Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. The MPI-400, used for curing coatings on optical fibre, allows for more efficient curing and large reductions in operating costs. This new and advanced solution will be visible on Booth 214 at the conference between 10 th and 13 th November. Miltec UV – USA Website : www.miltec.com

Europe’s largest data centre was launched on 23 rd September in Portugal following a €90m investment. The next generation data centre has a capacity of up to 30 Petabytes (PB), accommodating 50,000 servers and four data centre blocks with a total area of 75,000m 2 .

maintain power usage effectiveness of 1.25. The project brands Portugal Telecom as a world-class leader in the housing and management of IT and cloud infrastructures. Portugal Telecom’s role as a hub for exporting data storage capacity for companies and technology services will further advance through the Covilhã data centre.

The state-of-the-art facility is also a worldwide energy savings leader, and will

The inauguration is expected to create

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