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According to research by Sentrum about the main factors when making decisions about data centre expansion or consolidation, the number of sites to have (36 per cent) and location (32 per cent) received the highest results. Timescales (27 per cent) and the proximity to fibre (26 per cent) also scored highly, while the availability of power and real estate markets only received 16 per cent of the results.

However 85 per cent of respondents admitted that they were not considering all of the considerations while 47 per cent did not factor in any of the criteria when they were in the decision making process.

When it came to choosing help from a third party operator to assist in building or developing a data centre, the report showed that experience (58%) and cost (57%) are rated far higher than speed (18%).

Interesting comments. The location of your data center is going to depend on a number of factors, communication points, vendor support and accessbility being key. But as we scale up to the grid farms where I am effectively just providing CPU power to an application, does it matter where it is? If we’ve scaled it, put the resilience in, that the data center is in Glasgow and the office in London should be of little significance, key being that a vendor/service provider can easily access it. We’ll have to see, check it out, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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