Re: Data Colo Facilities in Northern NJ

Pete Templin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Koch wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks to all that responded. We're getting some good leads. Our current 
> cost for a cabinet with one 20AMP power connection seems to have gone 
> from $500/month to almost $900/month during the last two years. Does 
> that seem reasonable? or are we getting hosed?

120V/20A translates to 2400w or 2.4kw.  24 hours/day * 30 days/month = 
720 hours.  2.4kw for 720 hours = 1728 kwhr.  At $0.07 per kwhr, the raw 
utility cost to feed your cabinet would be $121, but I'd guess that 
$0.07 could be quite conservative.

Many sites find that their infrastructure (cooling, etc.) takes another 
60-150% to operate.  At a reasonable average of 100% operational costs, 
you're looking at another $121 to cool your cabinet.  Throw in some 
amortization of gensets, PDUs, etc., and related systems, and it starts 
to make sense.

Given the trend of increasing power densities, gone are the days where 
that 20A feed per cabinet was running at 2-5A and a shop could throw in 
the power for free.

pt
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