Will DataCenter Costs will rise?

[Maverick]

Now with the price of gasoline touching all time high, what would be its impact on the Input costs of Datacenters, at around $140/ Barrel gas ain't coming cheap. How it would affect DataCenter Costs?

[cernst]

Originally Posted by Maverick

Now with the price of gasoline touching all time high, what would be its impact on the Input costs of Datacenters, at around $140/ Barrel gas ain't coming cheap. How it would affect DataCenter Costs?

it won't affect DC day-to-day operations much...but the construction of a DC will increase and supply purchases will be increased since shipping costs will gradually increase over time. Vendors won't eat that cost, they'll pass it along.

[Maverick]

Rightly said, I did a little research and thats what it seems to me that initial costing would be much higher as prices of goods are going steeper.

[JaguarpcNick]

Obviously whenever the gas prices skyrocket you are going to see a change in services / goods price due to the inflated cost of shipping.

[maikj]

Oh yes, they go up. Chillers are up 4% from last year. Cooling towers, generators... everything went up an average of 4%