Credit Crunch Squeezing Data Center Space

miller60 writes "Many companies have saved money by leasing wholesale 'plug and play' data center space instead of building their own facilities. But the credit crunch has slowed the construction of new data centers, and analysts say this will create a shortage of data center space in 2010 in key markets like northern Virginia and Silicon Valley where demand exceeds supply. The situation is already becoming critical for companies with large space requirements, as indicated by a flurry of leasing recently in northern Virginia, where the remaining space may be quickly absorbed by government stimulus projects."

Re:off topic: connection reset by peer error

[pyrrhonist]

What's going on with slashdot? If I click on a story link, like
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/2010202/Credit-Crunch-Squeezing-Data-Center-Space [slashdot.org]
I get a "connection reset by peer" error message.
But if I change the url to
http://slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/2010202/Credit-Crunch-Squeezing-Data-Center-Space [slashdot.org]
then everything works fine.

They ran out of data center space for the machines the subdomains were hosted on.

Re:Supply? Demand?

[Thelasko]

Repeat after me: There is no such thing as a shortage in a free market.

Whenever you read a story about a shortage of something, 9 times out of 10 it's bull. Shortages only occur when artificial price controls are put on goods and services.