SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Super Micro
Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in compute,
storage and networking technologies including green computing, has
opened its new resource efficient LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Gold Certified distribution and final
assembly center in Silicon Valley which includes clean fuel-cell
electricity generation on-site.
The new 182,000 square foot facility is the first of five new
twenty-first century production hubs within Supermicro's Green
Computing Park that supplement the existing 1.5 million square
foot, worldwide headquarters, product-development and manufacturing
space. The facility is used to build Supermicro's comprehensive
portfolio of server and storage products, including the new
SuperBlade, BigTwin and Simply Double Storage products delivering
workload optimized systems to the leading cloud, big data,
enterprise and IoT innovators in Silicon Valley and around the
world. Supermicro has worldwide engineering, manufacturing and
distribution facilities in the United
States, Europe and
Asia to meet the specific needs of
our regional customers. All of these locations deliver the most
efficient systems, servers and storage that drive the Internet as
well as enterprise datacenter applications.
The new facility will generate its own clean fuel-cell based
electricity on-site saving over $30
million in energy costs over 10 years when fully deployed. A
one megawatt-hour Bloom Energy Server will provide the majority of
the facility's energy load and is configured to maintain critical
operations during grid outages. Compared to traditional centralized
power sources, the fuel cell delivers enhanced sustainability
benefits in many ways: high efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions
reductions, avoided air pollutants, and reduced water use. The
Bloom Energy Server converts natural gas into clean electricity
using a highly efficient electrochemical reaction
without combustion. By not burning fuel the fuel-cells
virtually eliminate smog forming particulates and harmful NOx and
SOx emissions that are generated by conventional power plants. The
fuel project will save an estimated 20% on energy expenses and
avoid nearly 3 million pounds of CO2 each year, the
equivalent carbon sequestered by over 1,000 acres of trees.
The LEED-certified buildings are resource efficient, using less
water and energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The
buildings utilize low VOC highly reflective roofing to eliminate
the need for air conditioning and are heated by hot-water perimeter
airflow heating. The buildings are lit with LED lighting systems.
The first building went into service in late 2016 with the second
to follow in August of this year.
"We are committed to green computing leadership across our
products and facilities. Our new Green Computing Campus uses a fuel
cell technology power system that reduces pollution while saving us
several million dollars in energy costs per year," said
Charles Liang, President and CEO of
Supermicro. "Our investment in leading edge technology provides us
with clean and much more reliable electrical power for our
vertically integrated system validation, engineering, manufacturing
and distribution campus in the heart of Silicon Valley."
"I could not be more proud of this home-grown San Jose manufacturer's success over the past
two decades," said San Jose Mayor
Sam Liccardo. "Supermicro continues
to operate under the motto of 'We Keep IT Green' by manufacturing
high quality products that meet the latest environmental standards.
I thank CEO Liang and his team for their continued commitment to
environmental and economic excellence, and for creating jobs here
in San Jose."
"We are proud to partner with another Silicon Valley
manufacturing company," said KR Sridhar, Founder, Chairman and CEO
of Bloom Energy. "This project highlights many of the benefits of
clean distributed energy, enabling a multi-use campus to generate
electricity on-site and protect its operations from grid
disruptions, all while reducing operating expenses and reducing
criteria pollutants."
With over $2 billion in revenues
and 5x growth in 6 years, Supermicro was ranked as the #1 fastest
growing IT company in the world and #18 fastest growing company
overall in 2016 by Fortune Magazine. It is also a member of the
Fortune 1000 largest U.S. corporations. Research and development
efforts are performed in-house, which increases the communication
and collaboration between design teams, streamlines the development
process and reduces time-to-market. Using a building block approach
Supermicro provides a broad range of products, and enables the
delivery of application-optimized solutions based upon customers'
requirement for performance, time-to-market, quality, cost and
power efficiency.
For more information on Supermicro's complete range of
high-performance, high-efficiency Server, Storage and Networking
solutions, please visit www.supermicro.com.
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About Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:
SMCI)
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in
high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier
provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data
Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and
Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting
the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and
provides customers with the most energy-efficient,
environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
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