Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas

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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well, Texas does have it's very OWN electric grid

[turkeydance]

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/...

Re:well, Texas does have it's very OWN electric gr

[bobthesungeek76036]

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

Re:Single point of failure???

[tnk1]

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.