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Originally Posted by wbellis
I would not put a client into any facility today that was not atleast 160w/sq ft.
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It seems to me that the cost of building and operating the datacenter scales fairly closely with the size of the M&E and its features. You want a 20k foot 2MW facility with N+1 and Tier3 audit, it costs X; you want a 50k foot 10MW with 2N and Tier4 audit, it costs Y. The cost to build is in the extra MW and features, not in the extra 30k sq feet.
There's a point where increasing cooling density becomes expensive using today's solutions, out of proportion to the benefits of cramming yet more stuff into one cabinet. If I offer a colo package in one facility, with 10kw of usable power and cooling in two cabinets (5kw/cab); or in four cabinets in another facility (2.5kw/cab), at the same price, why do people prefer the 5kw/cab facility?
I would think that the driver would be kw/$.