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Re: rocco2 post# 6881

Tuesday, 06/28/2011 11:37:58 PM

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:37:58 PM

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With what I've seen and built in the past, you try to keep your data center as full as possible. That being said, they're always vacancy and tenant change over that causes some variation. The guy I work with here in Edmonton is just about at 100% capacity and about 80% of the space is usable as technical square footage (figuring the rest is used for walkways, racks to store the servers in, air conditioning units, etc). To put that into perspective, lets assume only 50% of their space is currently occupied or in use as technical space:

50% of 10,000 = 16,000 sq. ft.

10,000 * $5,083/sq. ft. = $50,830,000

Quite honestly, I think $5,083 per technical square foot is a fairly ambitious number. Rackspace is one of the early entries into the cloud space, so they're well established and their density of virtual systems per server is huge. Even so, if you cut the revenue per square footage to 50% - 75% of the number mentioned above, the total is still huge.

People also need to take into consideration that they have more than just the Toronto data center. If you add in the systems they have in Dallas and the UK, this number only gets bigger.

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