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I pay a colo for power (which also covers cooling) and the costs are still waaaay less expensive than EC2; orders of magnitude less. Like <300USD a month (amort
by withinboredom 3y ago
I pay a colo for power (which also covers cooling) and the costs are still waaaay less expensive than EC2; orders of magnitude less. Like <300USD a month (amortized) for hundreds of cores, hundreds of gb of ram, hundreds of tb of disk space. The same costs for a EC2 instances (reserved 3yr, so it compares nicely) is thousands of USD per month.
- latchkey 3y agoAnecdotal response. You don't scale to every single business trying to run this hardware. If that happened, I guarantee that your bills would go up significantly. I've actually been hearing recently of people getting booted from their data center cause the DC is trying to reconfigure their customer base in order to increase rack density.
- withinboredom 3y agoThat's simply because there isn't as much demand, so supply is down. If demand goes up, supply goes up eventually, but price goes up until an equilibrium is reached. Eco 101.
- latchkey 3y agoA year ago, I had a call with Digital Reality on a Friday. I was looking for 5-10mw that they had available. They called me back on Monday to let me know that it was gone. Mind you, this was also $0.35/kwh, which is like residential rates! CoreWeave is in the process of opening 25 more data centers, concurrently. Eco 101 on steroids.