RE: Data Center Facility Costs

"Alex Rubenstein" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <005d01c88078$55c95d70$015c1850$@net>
> 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, 

Do not confuse the fact that if there is long haul fiber in the ground 10
feet away, that this means that there is bandwidth available. Pulling that
out of the ground, and breaking in to is very often technically infeasible.



> 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..

The other lacking resource may be customers.



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