RE: Data Center Facility Costs

Hi Kevin - what town are you in? Is there an industrial development agency? 
How about the mayor's name and phone. Maybe we'll make a trip out to 
visit.... Sounds great to me!


At 11:27 AM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>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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Best Regards,

Jeff Koch, Intersessions 

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