[98209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Jul 25 21:42:54 2007
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 26 Jul 2007 01:41:52 +0000
In-Reply-To: <407645010707241810h4afd6d19j32716996b36b4891@mail.gmail.com>
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jof@thejof.com ("Jonathan Lassoff") writes:
> Well, the fact still remains that operating a datacenter smack-dab in
> the center of some of the most inflated real estate in recent history
> is quite a castly endeavor.
yes. (speaking for both 365 main, and 529 bryant.)
> I really wouldn't be all that surprised if 365 Main cut some corners
> here and there behind the scenes to save costs while saving face.
no expense was spared in the conversion of this tank turret factory into
a modern data center. if there was a dark start option, MFN ordered it.
(but if it required maintainance, MFN's bankruptcy interrupted that, but
the current owner has never been bankrupt.)
> As it is, they don't have remotely enough power to fill that facility
> to capacity, and they've suffered some pretty nasty outages in the
> recent past. I'm strongly considering the possibility of completely
> moving out of there.
2mW/floor seemed like a lot at the time. ~6kW/rack wasn't contemplated.
(is it time to build out the land adjacent to 200 paul, then?)
--
Paul Vixie
