Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 day agoIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up167arrow-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-21 day agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-224 hours agoThat’s complete bullshit. Building one floor on cheap land is way, way cheaper than building high on expensive land. source: Wyoming. and of course, building one floor of data center is exponentially cheaper than building two floors.
That’s complete bullshit. Building one floor on cheap land is way, way cheaper than building high on expensive land.
source: Wyoming.
and of course, building one floor of data center is exponentially cheaper than building two floors.