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I'm really curious what you think the other criteria are, because I can tell you that Becker, MN, is around 90 minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area
by WkndTriathlete 8y ago
I'm really curious what you think the other criteria are, because I can tell you that Becker, MN, is around 90 minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area and solidly in the middle of farm country.
I can only surmise that their list of criteria was limited to "minimize dollars per square foot in rent per month" and "vaguely somewhat near a metro area."
- admax88q 8y agoPower is the biggest expense of a data center. So either access to cheap power, or access to cheap cooling to offset power are probably the top criteria. I'm sure there's others, latency to customers and real estate cost like you mentioned. Connectivity, construction costs, political stability.