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That feels somewhat implausible. I assume a Microsoft sized data center starts at over $100 million. Moving the footprint X miles away might be cheaper, but is
by 3eb7988a1663 2y ago
That feels somewhat implausible. I assume a Microsoft sized data center starts at over $100 million. Moving the footprint X miles away might be cheaper, but is probably a drop in the bucket given everything else required for a build out. I would further assume that they were already some distance away from the top tier expensive real estate to accommodate the size of the facility.
- donavanm 2y agoIts reality. Its generally about site and infra access, including power and fiber paths. The bigger providers (eg AWS) simply dont have more feasible sites that are within a few ms of the existing region DCs. Expect to see more infrastructure like “local zones” or AZs that are tens of ms away from the rest of the region.