RE: Data Center Facility Costs

Are we talking about Spokane or further south?  How's the internet 
connectivity around there? I'll move - what should I tell the wife and kids :)


At 01:11 PM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
>Well if anyone wants to get together to build an Eastern Washington
>datacenter, we would love to help. :)   Depending on where on the east
>side of the state, the power costs range from a low of about $0.015 KWh
>to about $0.070 KWh and it is all hydro.
>
>John van Oppen
>Spectrum Networks LLC
>206.973.8302 (Direct)
>206.973.8300 (main office)
>
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>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>On Behalf Of jp
>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:11 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Data Center Facility Costs
>
>
>As much as I'd love to invite you all to be customers, don't come to
>Maine.
>
>We pay about $0.16 per KWH, making the power bill the major component in
>
>a customer's colocation bill. We save a worthwhile amount of money in
>the winter by mixing some outdoor air, but it's not substantial enough
>to affect colo customer's bills.
>
>If you were on a Maine island with power, it might be $0.28-0.55 per
>KWH.
>
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Jeff Koch wrote:
> >
> > I changed the title a little to reflect the changed conversation about
>the
> > cost of running a data center.
> >
> > Anyway, are there parts of the country where the cost of running a
>data
> > center are substantially cheaper? Maybe where the cost of power is 3
>cents
> > per KW or maybe where the climate is cooler and you can just open the
>doors
> > (figuratively speaking) to cool the servers. Since electricity seems
>to be
> > the greatest operating cost where's the best place to locate a DC?
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06:43 AM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
> > >joe mcguckin wrote:
> > >
> > >>I don't think it costs $276 to reject the heat. Most modern HVAC
>systems
> > >>have something like a 4:1 effeciency factor, so it probably really
> > >>costs something like $70 for cooling...
> > >
> > >Check the archives of NANOG42 (you're on the attendee list too...)
>and
> > >you'll see someone (multiple people?) quote the figures I used.  I
> > >recently attended a cooling seminar (thanks Digital Realty Trust!)
>and
> > >they quoted a facility that had metered their "stuff" and were
>stunned by
> > >the results.
> > >
> > >Note that I lumped things together as "infrastructure", not just
>direct
> > >cooling.
> > >
> > >pt
> > >
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> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Jeff Koch, Intersessions
> >
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Jeff Koch, Intersessions 

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