What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? 204
coondoggie writes "So, if the government gave your company $500 million to spend on building a new data center what would you buy and how would you build it? Well, the Social Security Administration is about to find out. As part of the stimulus bill, or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the SSA got the tidy little sum to replace its National Computer Center. The SSA in fact says it will need closer to $800 million to fund a new IT infrastructure, including the new data center — the physical building, power and cooling infrastructure, IT hardware, and systems applications. (This is addition to a $72 million backup facility currently under construction in Durham, North Carolina)."
A really strong neural net... (Score:2, Funny)
At $8.95/45 specimens (http://sciencekit.com/harvester-ants%2C-live/p/IG0034483/), the newly constructed Hex would have the most powerful neural net we've ever seen!
But that wouldn't leave any money for the clacks...
Die Hard 4 (Score:3, Funny)
We don't need no stinkin' data center. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sharks with frikken lasers (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly.
Just copy the general ideas of this datacenter [pingdom.com] in Sweden.
Sharks and laser beams would fit right in.
Something modest (Score:5, Funny)
Then spend the rest on hookers and blow.
Hey, the gov't does that all the time, why are you staring at me like that??
What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? (Score:5, Funny)
Data Center: $10M*
Hookers and Beer: $490M
*I reckon I could get that down to $6M by cutting corners though, so that's another $4M for the beer :)
Simple (Score:5, Funny)
200m for me, 200m for you, 100m for the guy in India who builds a data center.
Re:Ummm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, he could have asked the government or investment bankers...
Re:We don't need no stinkin' data center. (Score:3, Funny)
the typo was really close to immolate...probably psychological
Easy ... (Score:1, Funny)
I'd by 5 Macs ...
(I love Macs, but damn ...)
Why do they need a data center that large? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Unfortunate Reality of Maintaining Legacy (Score:3, Funny)
The problem is not that the COBOL coders are retiring. The problem is that the government made the decision to rewrite the code 20 years too late. Everybody else knew the language was dead.
If this were a commercial company, they would go out of business for making such a stupid decision.
I'd do the right thing... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd then proceed to give the rest to support the bailout of the severely ailing and deserving auto and financial institutions.
sb
Re:I'd do the right thing... (Score:3, Funny)
Once you're done bailing out the deservingauto and financial institutions, you should still have about 499m left (let's assume you bought a LOT of boxes, tin cans and a few miles of string...).
Re:I do know (Score:3, Funny)
Or they could do something really novel like let *me* handle *my* own money bypassing SS entirely.
Careful, you try not paying your taxes and Obama will tap you as a cabinet member so fast your head will spin.