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Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

1sockchuck writes: RagingWire has begun building a 1 million square foot data center campus in the Telecom Corridor north of Dallas. Data centers have been growing in scale for years, but this project reflects the extent to which massive amounts of computing power are being concentrated in regional hubs. This super-sizing of data center campuses allows cloud platforms (and the data center providers that serve them) to rapidly add server capacity and electric power.

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  1. Garland?? by bobthesungeek76036 · · Score: 1

    is EAST of Dallas not north...

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    1. Re:Garland?? by bobthesungeek76036 · · Score: 1

      And with all the tech build up at the Alliance corridor in North Fort Worth, why would they pick the hell-hole of Garland???

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    2. Re:Garland?? by DaTrueDave · · Score: 1

      All of Lake Ray Hubbard is in the City of Dallas, so Garland is WEST of Dallas, not North.

    3. Re:Garland?? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      And with all the tech build up at the Alliance corridor in North Fort Worth, why would they pick the hell-hole of Garland???

      Forget it, Jake. It's Texas.

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    4. Re:Garland?? by lgw · · Score: 1

      You want to build datacenters in the middle of nowhere, with no neighbors, as inconspicuously as possible, with a fake address (really). That much money in one place keeps a very low profile, and ideally out of walking distance from any population center. It's just basic physical security.

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    5. Re:Garland?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you DON'T want to build a DC in the middle of nowhere - cos the middle of nowhere has no power no comms etc etc, and if you are a lone building in the middle of nowhere using HEAPS of power and with all sorts of comms lines isn't that making it a bit obvious what you really are!!!!

      physec 101

    6. Re:Garland?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I do not think the words mean what you think the words mean -

      OR

      Look at a map,

    7. Re:Garland?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      is EAST of Dallas not north...

      It's technically North-East of Dallas:
      Source:
      https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dallas,+TX/@32.8206645,-96.7313396,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x864c19f77b45974b:0xb9ec9ba4f647678f

  2. Single point of failure??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If I had a bomb as powerful as the Oklahoma City truck and no ethics at all, this would make a very attractive target.

    I hope they don't allow large vehicles close enough to the building to do take-down-the-building-scale damage (barring a nuke or something similar - all bets are off when it comes to those things).

    1. Re:Single point of failure??? by tnk1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, but people who blow up trucks full of fertilizer are trying to kill people where they feel safe or to make a statement. Blowing up data centers doesn't make real news. All you've done is killed at best a dozen people and made everyone there activate their DR plan.

      That's why they shoot up elementary schools and kill people on the news even though they could have used that to knock out the electrical grid or something. The news thrives on sentimentality and human interest pieces. And the crazies crave news coverage.

    2. Re:Single point of failure??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Which is yet again quite convincing evidence that there are no terrorists.

      Knocking out a data center such as this would cause such considerable disruption, not to mention immediate commercial loss, that it would be a highly effective terrorist act...dead bodies or not.

    3. Re:Single point of failure??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, they shoot up elementary schools because they have some sort of link with the school and are mentally ill. Gun nuts are such a joke.

    4. Re:Single point of failure??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Which is yet again quite convincing evidence that there are no terrorists.

      Knocking out a data center such as this would cause such considerable disruption, not to mention immediate commercial loss, that it would be a highly effective terrorist act...dead bodies or not.

      Regrettably, accepted quality levels for IT these days are low that if you nuked a data center off the map, people would just think it was the usual downtimes.

      Don't think I'm bitter, though. Just got though a week of VPN issues thanks to McAfee.

  3. Mr. Robot will hack it by Spy+Handler · · Score: 1

    and save the world

  4. well, Texas does have it's very OWN electric grid by turkeydance · · Score: 2

    quote: The majority of the state's residents live within the region regulated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, an "island" that generates and supplies all its own electricity—unlike, say, New York City or Detroit, whose residents found out the hard way that lots of their power comes from Canada. link: http://www.slate.com/articles/...

  5. Re:well, Texas does have it's very OWN electric gr by bobthesungeek76036 · · Score: 2

    it takes our own grid to run all the air conditioning units in the summer... ;)

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  6. Chortle by koan · · Score: 1

    "This super-sizing of data center campuses allows cloud platforms (and the data center providers that serve them) to rapidly add server capacity and electric power."

    It's also all your eggs in one basket too, don't they watch Mr Robot?

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  7. That's a whole lot of power. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    That's gonna be one hell of an electric bill. ;)

  8. TFA has some holes by bobthesungeek76036 · · Score: 1

    ... In July Facebook broke ground on a planned 750,000 square foot campus in Dallas ...

    I drive Facebook's new place every day and it's no where near Dallas...

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  9. Is that big? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Is that even bigger than one square kilometre? I have no idea due to your curious continued use of medievil measurements.

    1. Re:Is that big? by Irate+Engineer · · Score: 1

      Is that even bigger than one square kilometre? I have no idea due to your curious continued use of medievil measurements.

      It's 6.967728 × 10^32 barns

      You're welcome. I'm here to help.

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    2. Re:Is that big? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Medieval? Is that even older than the Han dynasty? I have no idea due to your curious use of nonstandard time measurements, and I'm far too lazy to pay attention to anyone else's culture or look it up for myself.

    3. Re:Is that big? by colinrichardday · · Score: 1

      No. a million square feet is the area of 1000 feet by 1000 feet. A square kilometer is almost 11 times the area (3281 by 3281 feet).

    4. Re: Is that big? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, feet measurements used to be in my culture but we abandoned them due to their obvious shortcomings. Obvious to anyone with - ahahahah! - an ounce of sense.

    5. Re:Is that big? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's that in Hectares?

    6. Re:Is that big? by Rob+Lister · · Score: 1

      So make the building 11 stories.

    7. Re: Is that big? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you! Genuinely no-where near as impressive as I'd imagined.

    8. Re:Is that big? by colinrichardday · · Score: 1

      A square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters, which is 10,000 ares or 100 hectares. A million square feet about 9.3 hectares.

  10. It's just a bigger target ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... for the "Chinese," uh ... please excuse ... "Russians" to hack and stuff.

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  11. Re:well, Texas does have it's very OWN electric gr by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

    Naw, it's in preparation if Texas needs to split from the Union. Gotta be self-sufficient and all that. :)

    Am I joking? :)

    Maybe. Maybe not.
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  12. is there is a datacenter shortage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am sysadmin and Everywhere i go i see a daracenters with a lot of unused space - sometimes almost empty, because everyone is building datacenters and servers are virtualized, consolidated and getting smaller each day.
    Never experienced datacenter shortage myself too...

  13. Niagara Falls Buffalo NY + Tesla = USA... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: It powers HUGE tracts of NY state & it's in NY State (Buffalo N.Y.) BORDERING Canada & extends power to neighboring states also.

    * This is what Tesla created w/ George Westinghouse as his backer (amongst MANY other marvellous things like the Tesla Coil, The Tesla Turbine, etc. - et al)...

    APK

    P.S.=> Those people at your news source should get their facts straight... apk

  14. Y'all had that petition the other year by billstewart · · Score: 0

    The one at Whitehouse.gov, to let Texas secede from the Union? I proposed we could give y'all back to Mexico if you didn't like DC.

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    1. Re:Y'all had that petition the other year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Texas was not part of Mexico prior to becoming part of the United States. Texas won its independence and it was so important that it made it part of its agreement with the US to have the option of leaving.

      Your comment was snarky and also stupid. You make it sound as though Texas was rescued from Mexico by the US and that is simply not the case.

    2. Re:Y'all had that petition the other year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You need to check your history books. Texas was desperate to join the Union, due to the huge debt from their wars. And there is no clause to leave the Union, but there is a clause (completely historical trivia at this point) to allow the state to be split into 5 states. That is it. Texans are taught by other Texans way too many lies about their state.

    3. Re:Y'all had that petition the other year by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

      Not true. Geographically, Spain ruled the area that comprises of modern day Texas from 1519 to 1821. In 1821, a portion of that area - that also included modern day Texas - one it's independence and became Mexico. In 1832, the Mexican president Santa Anna attempted to enforce martial law in what is geographically Texas today. In 1836, the final battle between Santa Ann and Sam Houston took place along Buffalo Bayou. It was at that moment the Republic of Texas was its own nation for nine years before joining the Union in 1845.

      It's hard to imagine at first whom ruled what based on a set of written factual history stats alone, because, the borders are constantly being redrawn around inclusive geographic regions as a result of pivotal moments of treaties and conflict.

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    4. Re:Y'all had that petition the other year by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

      Texas kicked Santa Anna's ass and won Independence as the Republic of Texas (it's own nation) for nine year PRIOR to joining the Union. So no, the US can't "give" Texas back to Mexico anymore than it could back to Spain. The only roll-back the US could do is give sovereignty back to Texas as a republic again. And, in fact there's a written condition that it can occur, but the land has to fracture into five states as part of the agreement.

      There are three ways Texas could become a republic again in its entirety.

      1. New articles drafted and passed between the US and the Union. They would still be allied neighbors like US and Canada.
      2. Texas gives the US the finger, keeps the land, and enforces with it's own forces until conflict determines the victor. Being that the US loves to cut-and-run since the days of the Vietnam War, Texas would win by the citizens of the US folding on the conflict.
      3. All the Mexican immigration changes the demographics enough that they decide to re-join Mexico and US just lets it happen. Quite possibly could happen to California in the future. But lets be honest, there's a reason they left Mexico to begin with, so if anything they become yet another Hispanic cultured republic.

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  15. Following some old advice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It looks like RagingWire is following in the footsteps of the great David Crockett.

    "You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." -- Davy Crockett