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I realize they have a building with lots of empty square footage, but how do they get enough power, bandwidth, cooling, etc? Data centers built by Google, Face
by muzz 13y ago
I realize they have a building with lots of empty square footage, but how do they get enough power, bandwidth, cooling, etc?
Data centers built by Google, Facebook, etc. seem to all be built from the ground up, and close to things like power plants.
- josefresco 13y agoAlso, wouldn't the premium of leasing or owning "retail" style property make the cost of maintaining the building too costly? I don't think Sears needs a datacenter on main street, or within a strip-mall. After RTFA I pulled this: "Farney acknowledges that many of Sears’ mall-based retail locations aren’t viable for data center usage. “I don’t think the industry is yet ready for a mall-based data center,” he said. “That may take some time. The stand-alone location is optimal.”" It seems they are considering it more for certain stand-alone locations.
- brudgers 13y agoThe real-estate deed for any mall location almost certainly precludes such uses by covenant. If they didn't, Sears would never have bought the property in the first place.
- walshemj 13y agoAnd it woudl be harder to secure you would find it hard to add a moat even adding a proper double fence might be hard in most of these store locations.
- enigmo 13y agoThey're not all built from the ground up: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/hamina/ http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ham...