[67695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Data center design ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Feb 17 17:19:13 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:17:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0402170824300.12381-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
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> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> >> new $25 million data center including some building layout diagrams
>
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > Bad timing, I'd seriously have recommended anyone doing this to have gone to
> > NANOG and the NOTA forum and tour.
> > They have the best data centre I've been in...
>
> Yeah, that's indisputably true, but not necessarily useful. A lot more
> people have the wherewithal to replicate a $25M template than a $750M
> template.
True but in terms of layout and ideas of how to make it look its a good start,
and you can probably get something that looks $100m for $25m (maybe a couple
less power plants ;)