Hosting service trumpets green credentials

Green crusaders will no doubt be delighted to run their internet services through UKFast, which aims to have its facility online in the latter half of 2008, with a little help from Manchester City Council.

The firm claims it will re-use the "large amount of heat generated by server computers," although it gives no details on exactly how it plans to do that - use the heat to boil the kettle, perhaps?

The building will also generate some of its own renewable energy (again, no details on how) and will run entirely on low-power servers (Intel, we suspect).

We dropped a line to the company to see if anyone there could give some substance to its claims. Unfortunately, the boffins there could barely connect us to the marketing department, let alone get a techie on the phone to explain the power-saving shenanigans.

UKFast says the firm should bring high-tech jobs to Manchester, and that this will be A Good Thing.

Will we see Al Gore tip up on this side of the pond and give a convenient endorsement to the green internet company? Stranger things have happened. µ