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Power is not the big expense and neither is land. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/31/DatacenterNetworksAreInMyWay.aspx http://perspectives.mvdiron
by amock 16y ago
Power is not the big expense and neither is land. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/31/DatacenterNetworksAreInMyWay.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/31/DatacenterNetwor... for a breakdown of expenses.
- mrkurt 16y agoI may be missing something, but that post doesn't address the expense of power, it talks about the relative consumption of networking equipment compared to the rest of the facility. Power is expensive, and James Hamilton generally spends lots of time talking about it, his Velocity keynote (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW-ayt_Urk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW-ayt_Urk) about datacenter innovations focused primarily on power and cooling (heat being a biproduct of power consumption).
- amock 16y agoSlide 3 says that power, power distribution, and cooling account for only 31% of the monthly cost. So while power related expenses aren't trivial they're significantly less than the cost of servers. I think land would be counted under other infrastructure so it's hardly worth considering.