Re:doesn't make much sense... (Score 1)

Which is cool, but an earthquake will damage the infrastructure connecting the cooling plant, the data lines, etc. Since physical access requires 100m of underground transit, I can't imagine how much reinforcement you'd need to ensure access in the event of a 6.7 earthquake. The thing that scares me is $405MM for 10,000 server cores. At $5,000 per server core the cost $50MM. Assuming 7 racks for 250 servers = 28 racks. Generously, 28 racks needs 100 sq ft per rack (including cooling equipment though strictly speaking not necessary since they aren't including that space in their math) =~30,000 sq ft. At a high-end, data center construction cost of $1000 psf = $30MM construction costs. So from my math, assuming $20MM to acquire 30,000 sq ft (or each 30,000 sq ft), you are at $100MM (on the wildest most outside math). If you park $300MM in a 4% US treasury note, you get $12MM a year rebated against your energy costs. Where is the improvement here? Hell, who is the knucklehead who approved the $405MM to spend on this???