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Even in the coast of large cities, like NYC or Boston. The real state cost of having a data center in those regions are high, but it would be much cheaper to ju
by Nican 8y ago
Even in the coast of large cities, like NYC or Boston. The real state cost of having a data center in those regions are high, but it would be much cheaper to just hide your servers underwater, near where your users are.
- wpdev_63 8y agoThis is a big reason. The cost of leasing out space is definitely more expensive than the cost of cooling these datacenters. Why spend several million dollars in leasing space when you can drop a datacenter capsule off the coast with free cooling? Who cares about the cost of hardware.
- hinkley 8y agoSo you’re going to put servers in a public waterway and you don’t think the US Government is going to have a word with you about it? You’re going to pay even if it doesn’t have a street address.