RE: Data Center Facility Costs

Alex Rubenstein once said:
> 
> > 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.
> 

I can say with nearly absolute certainty that the bandwidth, and access
to it, are non-issues (as long as you aren't doing this at the old
family farmstead that is 20 miles away from any Telephone central
offices :-).

> 
> 
> > 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.
> 

The location of the customers has nothing to do with the location of the
data other than being a selling point.

- Brian
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