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Re: [LUG] Data centre in Cornwall

 

Simon Avery wrote:

> However - a lot of companies who host their websites or other servers in 
> these places insist of 100% uptime. Without over-speccing power, cooling 
> and having strict access policies they can't get anywhere near that.

Cooling is an interesting problem and takes a significant amount of
power -- you're probably looking at as much again as is used to actually
run the servers.

James

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