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A residential area in Sunnyvale seems like an inopportune place to put a data center.
by relevant_thing 11y ago
A residential area in Sunnyvale seems like an inopportune place to put a data center.
- meddlepal 11y agoWhy? Not an expert on DC location or construction. What makes it any better or worse than somewhere else?
- okuli 11y ago- land price - water/electricity price - local wages - internet bandwidth
- jsjohnst 11y agoI know of at least five large data centers in the Sunnyvale / Santa Clara area.
- praneshp 11y agoMind sharing names? My company shut down its Santa Clara DCs around two years ago for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread
- jsjohnst 11y agoA quick Google search would easily answer this for you, but I'll oblige. Equinix SV2, SV4, SV6 are all in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, but Equinix also has 4 more very close by in Palo Alto, Mountain View, and/or San Jose. CenturyLink has two DCs in Sunnyvale. You can find a dozen more listed here: http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/santa-clara/ http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/santa-clara/ And this doesn't include the many privately held by major internet brands in the Valley.
- praneshp 11y agoThanks. Should've googled it myself. One of the first things I got to do when I joined my company(first job, just moving into the valley) was to tour our soon-to-be-dead DC. Was a really cool experience.
- mtmail 11y agoArea with expected earthquakes.
- jsjohnst 11y agoI'll agree with most of your points as to why it's not likely the most cost effective, but the point re: internet bandwidth is just absurd.
- cdubzzz 11y agoLook at the map GP posted. That residential block is sided by the Apple complex, a block of large industrial buildings, a Home Depot and an expressway.