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Building a Data Center In 60 Days

Posted by kdawson on from the 170-racks-and-nothin'-on dept.

miller60 writes "The facilities team at Australia's Pipe Networks is down to the wire in its bid to complete a data center in 60 days. And in an era when many major data-center projects are shrouded in secrecy, these guys are putting the entire effort online, with daily updates and photos on the company blog, a live webcam inside the facility, a countdown timer, and a punch-list of key tasks left to finish. Their goal is to complete the job by Friday morning eastern US time."

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  1. Re:Datacenter???? by Xicarius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In Australia, its a datacentre. Comparative to the number of people in Au & the connections within Australia & to the rest of the world, its pretty big.

    We only have two major cables out of Australia & capacity on them to the US costs hundreds of dollars a megabit/month.

  2. Time zones by Xiroth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uh, the article says that they aim to be complete at 9 am EST. While that might mean an American time zone in America, in Australia that means an Australian time zone (specifically, AEST, or GMT+10, aka their local time). So they're actually aiming to finish on Thursday afternoon Eastern American time.

    Just a FYI, unless there's clarification somewhere that they were speaking of the American EST.