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Wish I had the money, datacenter would be easy.
by R0b0t1 5y ago
Wish I had the money, datacenter would be easy.
- CSSer 5y agoWouldn’t the water be a problem?
- throwaway984393 5y agoNot if you submerge all the servers in sealed vats of oil
- bowmessage 5y agoEasy?! Cooling, water intrusion, and access to sufficient bandwidth all seem like nightmares.
- R0b0t1 5y agoIt's been done. First offering is usually cold storage.
- duskwuff 5y agoIt's a small underground facility in the middle of nowhere in Kansas -- even assuming that you could get adequate power service and bandwidth to the property (which is unlikely), you're still trying to run a bunch of servers out of a tiny, damp, hot hole in the ground. Not ideal.
- walrus01 5y agoEvery time I see people proposing to turn a former missile silo into a datacenter, I'd like to ask them to first do the budget on running a geographically diverse ring of singlemode fiber to the nearest mid size city... Most of them are located in areas with little to no real telecommunications infrastructure.