Will Silicon Valley Run Out of Data Center Space?

1sockchuck writes "With capital scarce, data center developers are prioritizing projects in northern Virginia, where the Obama stimulus plan and federal shift to cloud computing are likely to boost data center demand from government agencies. This is forcing them to delay or scale back large projects in Santa Clara, setting the stage for a supply/demand imbalance in Silicon Valley, particularly for large space requirements. One potential mitigating factor: some currently occupied data center space could become available through the failure of venture-backed startups."

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Re:misspelling in title

[mhh5]

Perhaps it wasn't a typo... but a snide remark. Silly-con -> Sillicon

Unfortunately

[gtrubetskoy]

There are only two places in the US where datacenters can be built - Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia.

Re:I say DIG

[tcopeland]

> there are plenty of sites available [missilebases.com]
> to build your own hardened data center.

You'll need to watch for deep crows, though.

Re:Agreed

[Samgilljoy]

I had a vision once of server farming becoming a family tradition among people in certain parts of the world, replacing agriculture.

Server farmer's almanac? heh heh