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Why? Not an expert on DC location or construction. What makes it any better or worse than somewhere else?
by meddlepal 11y ago
Why? 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.