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You left out all of the other costs of running a datacenter. Cooling, fire suppression, electricity, DR site, etc.

• johnklos 3y ago
  No, I didn't leave them out. They're just not a significant factor because those costs are proportional to need and demand. A company is either large enough to have enough that those things are aggregated across tons of servers, or they're likely colocating. Also, datacenters don't require all of that to be datacenters.
  • nullindividual 3y ago
    You did leave them out because most people _want_ electricity in their datacenter, or have DR, etc. These aren't free. And colocation is not free -- you pay for all of those things on top of the hardware you have to plan for peak cycles on. Nor what you were talking about in the OP, hence ignoring colo. Please don't move goal posts. This is HN, not reddit.
• Nextgrid 3y ago
  Your colocation provider handles all that for the flat monthly fee you're paying them for the rack space.
  • jeffbee 3y ago
    Yeah it's "flat" right up until you need to renew. Then it's 5x or GTFO.
    • Nextgrid 3y ago
      Vendor lock-in is not limited to colos though. GTFO'ing out of a colo to a competitor is much easier than switching cloud providers.
• jjav 3y ago
  > Cooling, fire suppression, electricity, DR site, etc. No, unless you are particularly huge (google, facebook), you rent space in a colocation facility that handles the real estate stuff (like electricity, cooling, fire). That is the best of all worlds for most companies needs.