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Literally just met someone for the first time yesterday who is moving to Texas to do this. Apparently, the refresh rate for cloud data centers is now getting d
by Bucephalus355 8y ago
Literally just met someone for the first time yesterday who is moving to Texas to do this.
Apparently, the refresh rate for cloud data centers is now getting down to 2 years or less. Easier to expand by replacing instead of leasing new space. This, combined with how environmentally conscious the big cloud companies are, has led to a big demand in IT Asset Disposal services. Also obviously there are security aspects in play here.
In PW Singer’s novel about war with China, pretty sure this was a big plot point when imports of microchips stopped and regular citizens had to donate their iPads and what not to be stripped of valuable material.
- lostlogin 8y ago> moving to Texas to do this. Why Texas? Are there lots of data centres there? If so, is that an energy cost thing, because it seems a place with greater cooling requirements?
- icelancer 8y ago>> Are there lots of data centres there? Lots of DCs and general IT work available there. Austin is a burgeoning tech city.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoTexas has been big with datacenters for a long time. Apparently some tax exemptions may be involved, as well as good access to a lot of power. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2015/07/10/data-centers-an-absolute-gold-mine-for-north-texas-cities https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2015/07/10/data-centers...
- recycledmatt 8y agoGreat tax environment for running a reseller.
- rasz 8y agoThis makes zero sense, you can easily resell 2-5 year old server hardware at x10-100 raw material worth.
- walrus01 8y agoYes, exactly, for example go to eBay, search for "dell r620 64GB", sort by buy it now. For typical prices of a several year old 1U dual socket server.
- driverdan 8y agoThat's not recycling. That's decommissioning and reselling good hardware.