RE: Data Center Facility Costs
"Alex Rubenstein" <[email protected]>
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... and have no fiber. That is the hard part, finding the intersection of lots of fiber, cheap power, power availability***, labor resource, real estate, and customers. *** Never, ever make an assumption that because you need power that the utility can (or will) provide it. In fact, things are so constrained in NJ that we have to pay them to do power studies to see if loads even as small as 3 or 4 megawatts won't break them. Then, they want us to pay reservation fees. > You guys got me curious, so I called and checked.. here in Park River, > ND , the small installation charge for power is .074/kwh (either 1 phase > or 3 phase), and for large installations (I am guessing that means big > enough to get your own transformer, or over 200 Amps, or something) the > cost is .0645/kwh . > > Of course the main advantage here is that real estate is cheap enough > that you can buy a building with your mastercard.. lol.. -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list