The datacenter in Atlanta is located in Suwanee which is north of Atlanta. The Building is operated by Quality Technology Services (www.qualitytech.com). I know since they occupy half of the building.
---------------------- Brian Raaen Network Engineer On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > I only quickly read this, but have the following question, should google > like to answer it... > > Of the six datacenters, where are they all physically located? > > Someone should get on the bandwagon of having a PUE standard that is > climate based. A PUE of 1.3 in the Caribbean is way impressive than 1.3 > in Quebec. > > And, why the hell do people use PUE rather than DCIE? DCIE makes more > sense. A PUE of 1.15 is DCIE of .86, which is somewhat easier to > quantify in ones mind. Translation would be, "for every 100 watts into a > site, 86 goes to the critical load." > > I'd be interested to hear what economization methods they use. > > And, while they touch on how the water evaporates to cool their > datacenters (a la cooling towers), they neglect to tell us how much > water is consumed and evaporated (in a heated form) in to the > atmosphere. > > Don't take this as an attack on Google, but there is a lot more to a > datacenter efficiency analysis than simple stating your PUE and some > other data. For instance, if you have a higher PUE but consume no water, > are you more eco-friendly? What about airside vs. waterside > economization? Is a higher PUE acceptable if the power generation source > is photovoltaic or wind (rather than coal or gas)? Do they do ice > storage? If they are they using river water, what does heating that > water affect? > > It's a good topic to talk about (and something I believe NANOG should > focus on), but I'd love to see more nuts and bolts in the data from > Google. > > > > > Google has released its PUE numbers: > > > > <http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenters/measuring.html> > > >
