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Let me give you a handle on how big (physically) this farm is: half a million square feet, with another half million they're planning on building. In compariso
by cstross 16y ago
Let me give you a handle on how big (physically) this farm is: half a million square feet, with another half million they're planning on building.
In comparison, the Boeing Everett plant, where they manufacture half the world's airliners, is 4.2 million square feet. That building contains, IIRC, four production lines.
The Apple server farm, when finished, will be the size of the Boeing 747 assembly line.
- hugh3 16y agoOr if you prefer, the Empire State building has about a quarter of a million square feet of floorspace, so it'll fill two Empire State Buildings. Or for a somewhat less impressive measure, the average size of a Wal-Mart Supercenter is 180,000 square feet, so it's about two and a half of those.
- sudont 16y agoI believe the "Wal-Mart" is too American to ever make it as a SI unit.
- samwillis 16y agoAnother perspective, its about 6.5 football (soccer) pitches and will apparently double to 13! If they fill the the entire building with rows of cabinets spaced by 2m they would have 23.2km of cabinets, about 46400. Enough space for 1.85 million 1u servers... but I am just getting carried away now.