RE: Data Center Facility Costs

That's one reason I am rather surprised that some server farm hasn't
moved in here.  There is good power available, cheap real estate,
existing empty structures, a friendly economic development committee,
easy bandwidth close to the backbone, a modern school and brand new
hospital.  We may not have stop lights (a traffic jam is three cars at
the same intersection) but we do have a grocery store, hardware store
and movie theatre. We even have a very nice coffee shop and a hotel.  I
work at the telco/ISP and we are a co-op, which lets us be less
structured than the big boys and do more custom installations for our
customers.  

I love living in a rural environment with a tech job, the best of both
worlds in my opinion.  I get to play with routers and Internet all day,
and at 4:30 jump in the car and I'm 5 minutes away from great hunting
and fishing grounds.  

Perhaps the only lacking resource would be a workforce, but you should
be able to import that, and the on site workforce for a server farm
really doesn't need to be that extensive.  just a few guys to do the
touchy-feeley stuff..

I am not recruiting here..  more like bragging..  :) ... but having said
that I would be willing to act as a point of contact to put you in touch
with city government.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 9:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Data Center Facility Costs
> 
> ... 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..
> 
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