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What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-20-month-old-could-teach-them dept.

1sockchuck writes "It takes most companies at least a year to build a new data center. Digital Realty Trust says it can build a new data center in just 20 weeks using standard designs and modular components that can be assembled on site. The company equates its 'building blocks' approach to data centers to building with Legos — albeit with customized parts (i.e. the Millennium Falcon Lego kit). Microsoft is taking a similar approach, packaging generators, switchgear and UPS units into pre-assembled components for rapid assembly. Is this the future of data center design?"

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  1. Legos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The plural of "lego" is "lego".

  2. officially its an adjective by eean · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you look at the website:
    http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=fairplay

    Of course if its an adjective then "legos" is nonsense.

    In common usage it is in fact a noun: the OED defines "Lego" as a noun. The plural of a noun has an 's', with the handful of well-established exceptions.

    Who decided that LEGO was an exception? Not the LEGO Group who say its only an adjective. So I think its the fact that the LEGO Group never says "LEGOs" (since they always uses it as an adjective) caused misguided pedantic people (or otherwise any lover of arbitrary rules) to decide that its a plural noun.

    So put me in the legos camp. :)