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London, UK, 20 May, 2008 - Rackspace(R) Hosting, a leading provider of
IT Hosting services, today announced it has begun installing equipment
in its new ‘green’ data centre, which will be powered by renewable
energy sources.

The data centre, in Slough, Berkshire, will draw power from a local
combined heat and power plant that uses wood chips, waste paper and
fibre fuel to generate electricity, hot water and steam.

Rackspace has converted a former warehouse on the Slough Trading Estate,
to provide 55,000 square feet of net technical space. Construction has
been completed and equipment is being installed in the first data hall.
The first customers are scheduled to go live in June. The date centre
layout has been built to Rackspace specifications, which were designed
to better manage customer needs.

Doug Loewe, managing director of Rackspace said: “This is a fantastic
project which will harness bio-mass fuels to power the data centre.
Rackspace is committed to being energy efficient and making a real and
positive difference to the environment. We also recognise that customers
are increasingly looking for suppliers who can help them meet their own
environment related goals. By investing in this facility we continue to
strive to exceed the environmental expectations of our customers while
delivering their hosting needs.”

Power for the data centre comes from the UK’s largest dedicated bio-mass
energy plant, which is operated by Scottish and Southern Energy.

Rackspace was one of the UK’s first hosting companies to offer carbon
neutral hosting in 2006 by planting trees through its relationship with
the International Tree Foundation, the world’s longest standing tree
planting charity. The company has already planted more than 2,500 trees
to offset the carbon emitted through running servers.

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