Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?

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[–] 26 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Cost. It's slightly cheaper. And I do mean slightly.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Depends on the price of the land.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah that's the only difference. Usually land is cheaper. But building high in the middle of nowhere is only like 5% more expensive.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago*

    That's complete bullshit. Building one floor on cheap land is way, way cheaper than building high on expensive land.

    source: Wyoming.

    and of course, building one floor of data center is exponentially cheaper than building two floors.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    It's also not the core purpose of the data center. The building is a shell protecting racks of servers, the core purpose of a data center. Why spend anymore than absolutely necessary when it would not increase the output of that core purpose.

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