On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I live in the same sort of world, just on a smaller scale, and my biggest power consumer is storage, not compute, but I thoroughly understand Mark's points. > > So, get more power and UPS. > > The specs are published, so power consumption shouldn't be a "surprise". Usually your whole building is designed around a certain amount of heat load and data centers designed a few years back are probably already maxed out due to the earlier rounds of density increases. So you will need at least more A/C and probably real estate too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com