Re: DATACENTER: Cooling and Cost Data for Web Hosting Data Centers

[Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Ken Woods wrote:

> Oh, my bad.
> Sorry.
> You're "one of them"
> heh heh heh.
> 
> It's all good, I've gotten to the point that you network people just
> *confuse* me.  Espcially when you try to talk power and cooling and the
> such.  

Hay, I am a network guy, but I also build datacenters.
 
> As an average?  That's absurd.  See below, re: adding drops.

Yes
 
> (don't say fuses, they're breakers)

Well, you may have some disconnects that are fused.
 
> Ah, OK, Then we get into the whole discussion about RPP's and other power
> distribution.  What people (and this is not a cut on you....) don't
> realize is that a datacenter is not a static environment.  A properly
> designed facility will make additional power drops a 10 min job.

Ken you are 100% correct.
 
> -- 
> Ken Woods
> kwoods@verio.net
> "Used to be a geek.  Now I'm a facilities guy."
> "ANd yes, I'm *really* going to bed now"
>