[[!meta title="Weta Digital's New Data Centre"]] [[!tag 2008 wordup work nz self]] Computer World has a nice (but short!) write up on our new data centre. It's kept us busy for a long time, it's nice to see people interested in what we've done. > Weta Digital, the studio that produced the Lord of the Rings series and King Kong, has completed its new extreme density data centre. > Weta says the space and energy efficient facility is unlike any other worldwide, balancing floor space, power, cooling and other technologies to deliver maximum frame rendering power. > The facility is also claiming another world first: the first to use Hewlett-Packard's Double Density server blades, which combine two independent servers in one blade. > "The increased density of the blades allows us to add a significantly higher number of processors in a confined physical footprint while still managing within tight power consumption and cooling requirements," says acting CEO Adam Shand. > The facility uses water cooled racks made by Rittal, which allow cooling to be delivered to racks as needed in real-time. Cooling is self-regulated and can be managed at a granular level for each rack, Shand says. Source: **UPDATE:** DOH. Thanks to [John](http://blog.projectxtech.com/) and [Tim](http://tim.nicholas.net.nz/) for [pointing out the typo](http://adam.shand.net/iki/2008/weta_digitals_new_data_centre/discussion/), I am in fact acting CTO ... not CEO. <sigh>