How big does a server farm have to be?
FAST FORWARD: Microsoft's cash versus Google - May. 5, 2006: "In such a world, the data centers will be vast, many in number, and loaded with servers, storage and switches. Such facilities will be so energy-intensive that the primary cost of operating them will probably be electricity. They thus will be, as Ozzie explained, located as close as possible to inexpensive power sources like dams.In the wake of the FORTUNE story, people starting putting two and two together. The Seattle Times's Brier Dudley wrote, 'A few weeks ago, Microsoft paid $1.08 million for 75 acres, where it's building three structures totaling 1.4 million square feet. That's about the size of 10 Costcos.'
The site of those structures is not far from the Grand Coulee Dam, the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The Quincy Valley Post-Register reported last year that Microsoft said it could need 48 megawatts of power for the facility, and will build its own electrical substation and transformer on site."
Wow.
posted by Vijay Kumar @ 12:57 AM
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