BYO or otherwise Breaking the 10000 server

BYO or otherwise – Breaking the 10000 server barrier via Gigaom

It’s in that 5 to 7.5MW area where the company starts having to know about the niceties of chillers and power systems, he said.

“When you break through the 10,000 server barrier — that’s when you start needing 3 to 5MW of power and now you’re getting into major facility costs where you have to have multiple diesel generators, and complex power and cooling systems. And it’s in that 10,000 to 100,000 server zone where costs soar. At that point, there aren’t many companies on the planet that can achieve the scale of an Amazon, a Rackspace, a Google, or a Microsoft. So why not trust your loads to the experts?

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