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The World's Largest Data Centers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-i-visit dept.

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."

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  1. with the cooling costs by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  2. Re:Hmm by jimicus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh come on. Put the crack pipe down.

    Every OS has its quirks. Windows has bluescreens, Unix has kernel panics. And even if you put together a hardware/OS combination that isn't particularly vulnerable to such things, you've still got application software to deal with.

    When you categorically must have the system as a whole working, when "oh dear that server just died horribly" is not allowed to cause the system as a whole to come crashing down, redundancy is very much a critical issue - I don't care if you're talking about Windows, Linux or VMS.