Some suggestions about the location of data center

Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33707.html ">2012 The end of the world." As humanity celebrates the 2013 Spring Festival, smog sweeps through the north-central part of China and extends pollution to most of China's region. I am in the "haze", breathing is difficult, masks are necessary products, the body of various discomfort. As a data center editor, the writer is sensitive to the fact that the "haze" of data centers that are demanding on climate conditions will also be "out of breath". Some of the media are writing: "Does the data center need to wear masks?" ”。

With regard to the "haze" of pollution, data center experts believe that for the airtight data center, the impact is negligible. Of course, this is limited to high-quality data centers. As cloud computing services become increasingly popular, data centers are evolving toward a trend of shrinking numbers and optimizing quality. In addition, in the global economic downturn, enterprises in the strict control of IT budgets, each building a data center, whether public data centers or private data centers, should be careful in the location planning, in order to deal with such as air pollution and other unknown challenges to prepare.

Non-planned location of data centers

The reason of the non-planning location, I think there are two main points: short-sighted, only the immediate interest costs, ignoring the follow-up development, enterprises at random to choose some low-cost idle plant to build data centers, the pursuit of construction speed, did not consider the whole site should pay attention to the elements. Data center location can not be hasty, not planning the location of the data center endless. Mr. Liu Ximing of Beijing Jie Tong Room Equipment Engineering Co., Ltd. has mapped out the problems of the data center of the non planning location.

"Non-planning location data center has a problem"

From the illustration, it can be seen that the data center of the non planning location may have the trouble of not enough power capacity, insufficient load, unreasonable floor position, large number of facilities to be demolished and restored, high or low level. These consequences will not only affect the overall performance of the data center, the cost of its optimization can not be underestimated. From an example, if there is not enough power capacity, then the enterprise must do the work of power increase capacity. Power increase capacity can only be done in the enterprise already built data center, this data center building already has fixed high and low voltage distribution position, to its power increase capacity can only be achieved on the basis of the original building, which first shows that the objective environment of power capacity increase is limited, can not achieve the best choice; Second, we need to spend more manpower and time cost to think about how to achieve the best. Such a toss, where the cost of investment than the new planning and construction of a data center of the cost of distribution construction is actually much greater.