Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas 40
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.
Garland?? (Score:2)
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Forget it, Jake. It's Texas.
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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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All of Lake Ray Hubbard is in the City of Dallas, so Garland is WEST of Dallas, not North.
Re:Single point of failure??? (Score:4, 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.
Mr. Robot will hack it (Score:2)
and save the world
well, Texas does have it's very OWN electric grid (Score:3)
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Y'all had that petition the other year (Score:1)
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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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.
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Chortle (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?
That's a whole lot of power. (Score:1)
That's gonna be one hell of an electric bill. ;)
TFA has some holes (Score:2)
I drive Facebook's new place every day and it's no where near Dallas...
Is that big? (Score:1)
Is that even bigger than one square kilometre? I have no idea due to your curious continued use of medievil measurements.
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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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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).
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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.
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It's just a bigger target ... (Score:2)
... for the "Chinese," uh ... please excuse ... "Russians" to hack and stuff.