The World's Largest Data Centers 87
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."
Re:And only 8 months behind schedule (Score:1, Insightful)
"Who is Lucas123?" There fixed that for you.
with the cooling costs (Score:4, 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
Re:Hmm (Score:4, 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.
Re:The 10 (Score:3, Insightful)
#1, #5, and #8 in Chicago?
In the 1600s French explorers wrote about finding a location in the center of the new world which would be the most strategic location for controlling shipping by water. Indeed, for many years in the 1800s Chicago was the busiest port in the United States. But the age of the railroad was approaching and Chicago decided it must be the center of that as well. To this day, more than 60% of rail traffic in the United States runs through Chicago. In the 1900s a fast expanding America purchased many of their goods from catalogs. The largest building in the United States was built in Chicago so that manufacturers of goods could display their products to the purchasing managers of the largest retailers in America. And thus Chicago was the center of American retail. In the last 30 - 40 years, trading of financial instruments has exploded in quantity. And Chicago is the center of this market. Every day, more money flows through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange than the NYSE and NASDAQ combined
And here we are today, with Chicago the center of data distribution. Should we be surprised?