[Gllug] london hackspace news / Cheap 2nd hand rackmount servers

John Edwards john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk
Sat Apr 2 09:13:20 UTC 2011


On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:36:04AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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> Which always makes me wonder .. why don't people build colos somewhere
> where land and power are cheaper?

Probably because getting reliable, high quality, low latency links
to those locations is harder.

There is a move out of the large cities, but datacentres there are
still growing. Telehouse Docklands has a lot of building work going
on at the moment.


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