Where is the ideal location for a Data Center?
February 17th, 2007
Ed Kohler’s pitch to Google illustrates that even the most sophisticated site selection process could miss a unique local opportunity like the Ford Plant in the Twin Cities. It’s already well known that cheap power, cheap land, available bandwidth, and low labor costs are a great recipie for landing a data center project. Tax incentives don’t hurt either.
Don’t underestimate the value of local knowledge. Even Google sends advance teams to the candidate sites.
The ideal place to locate a data center depends on your use of the data center in the first place. Define that first.
