Hi KenB,
In our 3rd Pod we have conduit already in place to receive additional power into the building - we also have an established location for the next equipment yard. We currently have 7 mg into the building with the ability to add 7 mg more when the time comes - of course all at a cost. What we didn't want to do was build everything out and with the technology changing so quickly - and not need it as suppliers attempt to reduce, not just the size of the box (space), but also kW. Since there are many ways to reduce the kW needs within a DC such as spray cool or silicon changes in the chip or cooler hard drives etc, we wanted to be very prudent about our affect on the power usage. When we built the DC we were just entering VM Hosting and this has proven to be a huge savings as well.
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