We have a data centre unworthy of the name. It's running out of power and cooling capacity. We are blowing two kilowatts heating the atmosphere for every one that runs computers. The occasional floods don't help. At last we have the budget to do a proper job. But here's the hard decision. How much to spend on our Goldilocks data centre - one that's not too big, not too small?
How many flops and bytes do we need on our campus now that cloud computing is real? Now that Google, Microsoft and the rest run their monster operations in forgettable places with their own power stations? Surely only a fool with a control complex runs their own data centre now? We've been round and round this one. We've done feasibility reviews and modelled scenarios. Too many variables. Eventually we will pick a number (£s, KWs) that's affordable and that isn't so obviously wrong that I get the sack!
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