Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-217 hours agoIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?message-squaremessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up143arrow-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-217 hours agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 hours agoIt’s also not the core purpose of the data center. The building is a shell protecting racks of servers, the core purpose of a data center. Why spend anymore than absolutely necessary when it would not increase the output of that core purpose.
It’s also not the core purpose of the data center. The building is a shell protecting racks of servers, the core purpose of a data center. Why spend anymore than absolutely necessary when it would not increase the output of that core purpose.