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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."

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  1. And only 8 months behind schedule by Lucas123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

  2. Re:The 10 by Icegryphon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now I can think of 11 places that just became great bullseye like the center of the Pentagon.

  3. hey, i love the finger lakes by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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  4. dude: by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

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