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Re: rocco2 post# 6896

Wednesday, 06/29/2011 12:04:51 AM

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:04:51 AM

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Found this document that VMWare provides to give people a cost comparison of building their own data center vs. using a cloud.

VMWare Cost-Per-Application Calculator
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CD8QFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Fgo%2Fcostperapp-calc-methods&rct=j&q=data%20center%20technical%20square%20footage%20calculation&ei=gqEKTsWhOOLkiALLm4S7AQ&usg=AFQjCNG3WgpcKkrVtyOvd3sMBkP8UP1WUg&sig2=yaMtbpczPZlZF5PMlATKfg&cad=rja

The important part (p.12):
Due to the special infrastructure (racks, cooling, power systems, acoustics and disaster resilience) required in datacenters, datacenters are often significantly more expensive to build than standard commercial properties. According to industry research, a datacenter rated at 40W per square foot costs approximately $400 per square foot. As datacenters today consume at least 270W per square foot, current datacenters are costing on average of $2,700 per square foot.

20,000 sq. ft. * $2700 = $54,000,000

You have to be working with some serious coin to be able to build a data center of that size.