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Could also be more likely that it's cheaper to extend the life of an older DC by accepting higher temperatures and failure rates than to upgrade the hvac to acc

Could also be more likely that it's cheaper to extend the life of an older DC by accepting higher temperatures and failure rates than to upgrade the hvac to accommodate newer higher density designs

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
Sounds like a win/win incentives alignment.
synicalx 4y ago
That creates a very unreliable DC though. I guess you'd factor the increase whole-of-facility downtime into your forecasts and work around that maybe.
JJMcJ 4y ago
The air conditioning is not free. Downtime isn't free. Depending on design, if the DC isn't very monolithic, then you can run with components failing and not causing much trouble, replacing when available, if your apps are designed to run on a zillion small CPUs, as I believe Google and Amazon are, instead of a giant monolithic computer, 1970s style. Could have heavier AC for critical components, the main routers and disk farms, for instance. Details of the calculations unknown to me.