3 ms·
Well, one of the big advantages of Ireland is that it's the coldest country in Europe with a decent amount of transatlantic fibre running by its coast, and it h
by talideon 12y ago
Well, one of the big advantages of Ireland is that it's the coldest country in Europe with a decent amount of transatlantic fibre running by its coast, and it has pretty stable temperatures.
Ambient temperature can be very useful if you're building a datacentre. I work for the largest hosting provider in Ireland, and our new datacentre uses the temperature differential between the inside of our pods and the outside air to do energy recovery and cooling, and it's pretty effective . I'm a developer, so I don't have all the details, but I'll ask our CTO later for the details, if I've time.
- cefstat 12y ago> Well, one of the big advantages of Ireland is that it's the coldest country in Europe [...] Perhaps you are confusing Ireland with Iceland? (seems improbable since you work in Ireland) Even then, Finland is colder than either of them although its coldest parts are not so easily accessible.
- ptaipale 12y agoColdest country with transatlantic fibre running by its coast... though a fibre running by a coast is not good in itself, you actually need to terminate the fibre in your country. (Like at my home, the council built a fibre to a nearby facility, but I can't plug into a fibre as it passes the house on the nearby street, underground...) Google has also set up a data center in Finland, where it indeed is colder; this one recycles a former paper mill and its energy connections. http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/hamina/ http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ham...
- talideon 12y agoYou clipped off the important bit: > Well, one of the big advantages of Ireland is that it's the coldest country in Europe with a decent amount of transatlantic fibre running by its coast It's the fibre that's the key bit there.