Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?message-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up173arrow-down1message-squareIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·17 hours ago20 years ago I worked on the top floor of a 5 story office building. We wanted to build out a server room with a pretty hefty UPS for backup. The amount of steel reinforcement we had to install in the ceiling of the 4th floor was pretty insane…
20 years ago I worked on the top floor of a 5 story office building. We wanted to build out a server room with a pretty hefty UPS for backup. The amount of steel reinforcement we had to install in the ceiling of the 4th floor was pretty insane…