Best of the Data Center Blogs, July 16th
Here’s a roundup of some interesting items we came across this week in our reading of data center industry blogs: Why There are Data Centers in NY, Hong Kong, and Tokyo – James Hamilton looks at data center site selection: “Google is in New York because it has millions of customers in New York. If it were physically possible to serve these customers from an already built, hyper efficient datacenter like Google Dalles, they certainly would. But that facility is 70 msec round trip away from New York. What about Iceland? Roughly the same distance. It simply doesn’t work competitively. Companies build near their users because physics of the speed of light is unbending and uncaring.”
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