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The World's Largest Data Centers
1sockchuck writes "It seems data centers are getting bigger all the time. Who has the world's largest server farm? Data Center Knowledge has put together a list of 10 huge data centers, all between 400,000 and 1.1 million square feet. The story highlights the trend toward ever-bigger data centers, such as the Vegas SuperNAP and Microsoft's container data center, as well as established behemoths like the NAP of the Americas in Miami and Lakeside Technology Center in Chicago."
your mom's black book. Ain't so little anymore.
It must take a really long time to put NAND flash chips on a board. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136256/OCZ_to_release_1TB_SSD_this_month
I love networking and datacenters... it seems very exciting to me to think about designing and maintaining a datacenter like that.
This was one of the most exciting threads I've ever read on Slashdot, if that tells you anything.
Google didn't make the top 10? I'm shocked!
While it won't be filled up with computer equipment, Quality Technology Services just bought the former Qimonda fab plant in Richmond VA for use as a data centre. At 1.3 million square feet it ranks (according the link) as one of largest in the USA. Who knows how much of it will be actually used, as I heard an interview with the CEO that said one of the reasons they bought the site was because it had "room for growth".
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considered to be a "Data Center"?
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I used to live right across the street from the Terramark NAP in downtown Miami. Then the fuckers put up 3 big satellite dishes on the roof and blocked my view of the bay. I'm not bitter but I used to get so much tail with that view. :-)
Since the site is being clobbered and doesn't have a huge datacentre...
10. The SuperNAP, Las Vegas (Switch Communications)
9A and 9B. Microsoft Data Centers in Quincy Washington and San Antonio
8. CH1, Elk Grove Village, Ill. (DuPont Fabros)
7. Phoenix ONE, Phoenix (i/o Data Centers)
6. Microsoft Dublin (Microsoft)
5. Container Data Center, Chicago (Microsoft)
4. NGD Europe, Newport Wales (Next Generation Data)
3. The NAP of the Americas, Miami (Terremark)
2. Metro Technology Center, Atlanta (Quality Technology)
1. 350 East Cermak / Lakeside Technology Center (Digital Realty)
Too bad this wasn't hosted at one of world's 10 biggest data centers. If it had been, the site might have survived the Slashdot effect.
i would have said that a datacenter in las vegas makes no sense
but of course, i'm forgetting the hoover dam: guaranteed cheap power
which makes sense, because the hoover dam is the only reason las vegas can exist as a city in the first place
so for any of you datacenter builders of the future: look for intersections of traffic flows and hydroelectric dams
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Next up: How to rice your data center with NOS and Team Jetspeed decals!
I hate printers.
Anyone else having trouble reaching the site/loading pictures? Maybe datacenterknowledge.com should be looking for a new datacenter?
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Ok, square footage and power might be impressive to some. I really just want to know the number of fiber lines and bandwidth in these data centers. I figure if it is about 1 TB/s, I could consider renting space for an apartment there for the right price.
The NSA is amused by your puny datacenters.
Vegas has **huge** internet-tubes. Hoover dam huge. http://www.cogentco.com/img/other/networkmap_large.jpg I would assume there are other carriers going through Vegas too.
No meaningful earthquake threat out there. Sure, you'll get the occasional roller from Cali, but that's it. The weather isn't a big issue either. The data center's going to go up in smoke if the cooling quit regardless of where the data center is located.
http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html
but the issue is traffic flows. las vegas is situated nicely between denver, los angeles, and all the traffic flowing to the east
but in wester ny, you are off center of the boston/ new york/ washington corridor, and off center of the ny-chicago intartubules
is there fibre along the erie canal? (im a complete idiot on this question). it would make sense after all for a toronto/ montreal chicago/ new york city hub to run something there
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downtown las vegas to the hoover dam is 25 miles
everything else is desert
that's about the entire story
if the dam wasn't built, there would be no las vegas. the building of the dam allowed las vegas to exist
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
between 37000 m^2 and 102000 m^2
The website in the above article, is having sporadic failures, ATM im getting timeouts,
Probably slashdotted thier poor website
Lol
The most popular location in the top 10 is Chicago, IL, with three of the largest data centers. 350 E. Cermak is across from Chicago's convention center. Elk Grove Village is west of O'Hare Airport.
Why Chicago? It's a central US location. It doesn't get too hot. Power reliability is good. Transportation access is good. Earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods are rare. There are many big, solid industrial buildings available. It's not as depressed as Detroit or Cleveland.
I would think that hurricane damage, flood potential, etc. would be a problem.
location is really really good between europe/ north america
the cable layers would need thick hulls, but otherwise, yeah: i think iceland is well-suited as an ideal datacenter location of the future, for political reasons even
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I drive past Phoenix ONE on my way to and from work every single day and fantasize about working there. Obviously because of my next question, this is a bit of a silly fantasy, but what exactly do datacenter techs do? I'm a sys-admin now, but datacenters have always seemed so freaking cool to me. How do I get a job working at one and what will I be doing?
if not the massive hydroelectric dam 25 miles away?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The "NAP of the Americas" with 160 networks converging on it, sounds like the opposite of the Internet's original decentralized design. Not that the 7-inch-thick concrete panel walls sound fragile, but hardly impregnable, either. I'm thinking the truckload of glorified fertilizer that demolished the Murrah building would still give it a bad day.
No doubt I was silly to think even a few of these monsters were out of the way in places easier to secure with a chain-link fence and a few cameras that could see a truck coming; somewhere out in the boonies, right near the actual hydro plant. (I'd heard many were locating "near hydro sources" for the assured power; of course, they just meant "cities served by hydro".)
Naturally, they want them minimum latency away from huge customers, like downtown Chicago, New York, and Dallas.
I'd read (probably in Slashdot) that the Internet was no longer remotely the decentralized nuclear-war-survivor of its 1950's design goals; but it's even more sobering to think that most of the main OC-192 bandwidth switches AND vast amounts of storage and processing could be taken out by one parking lot's worth of Oklahoma-City type wingnutmobiles.
And now the TFA just neatly summarized their top 10 target list. Swell.
OK, time to back up my Gmail.
If you consider getting laid important you really need to ... become an adult.
Ah, so adults are joyless, sexless machines that keep the other machines running. How wonderful it must be to be an adult.
"Hope I die before I get old" never sounded truer.
If you don't consider getting some important then you really need to reduce masturbation frequency. Try going a month or two, and then tell me getting laid isn't important.
"It's ok, I'm completely secure as long as my iron is off"
trust me, it isn't
They missed the largest data center in the world, the @Tokyo data center in Tokyo, Japan. It's over 1.5 million square feet, large enough to have it's own train station (Shintoyosu station). It sits on a piece of land out in Tokyo Bay in the section of the city known as Odaiba. I had a chance to do some work there a couple years ago when Lehman had a lot of space there (my pictures of the data center are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkane/sets/72157623651979353/).
Some more info on the @Tokyo data center can be found on the web:
Google map:
http://tinyurl.com/y6djuzo
http://www.jpix.ad.jp/en/service/site_info.html "The academic IX NSPIXP2 is located here.The total floor space in the building is 140,000 square meters which is the largest scale data center in the world."
Anyone else here more of a perv than a nerd and can only come up with Nudes A Poppin' when trying to remember what NAP means?
Well done, give terrorists excellent targets for future attacks. Yes, bombing a few buildings or vehicles and killing people will get you in the headlines but take down data centers and you can really screw the world. Or would they avoid them as they may have data stored in them too? Hmmm...
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I really need to get laid to but you know what? I have servers in the NAP of the Americas. w00t!!! pwn3d!!! I loves it!!! who needs women anyways?