Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

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• RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

  How do you figure out where west is in Antarctica?

  

  boomchuck1

  11 April, 2011 16:05

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  • RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

    @boomchuck1: ROTFLMAO ! I'd like to hear the answer to that myself!

    

    The Reverend

    11 April, 2011 17:10

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  • West in Antartica

    @boomchuck1
    
    Easy question. It's counter-clockwise.

    

    bob.kerns2

    11 April, 2011 18:10

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    • RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

      @bob.kerns2
      Go to the South Pole and look north along the GM. Everything to the left is West.
      
      yumsun

      

      yumsun@...

      12 April, 2011 14:02

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• RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

  Only "Easy" if you take a self-absorbed viewpoint; certainly less-than useful if you're arranging a meeting point or giving someone directions. At zero latitude, longitude is a consensual way to establish direction. Besides, boomchuck1 was being irreverent, creative & playful (which I greatly enjoyed) but, which is likely to go right over the heads of some high-functioning Asperger-types...

  

  deltadan

  11 April, 2011 18:41

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• Cold is good

  Cold is good if you have a fridge in youyr PC tower freezing the CPU & GPU. On a room or building sized scale it is a nightmare as static electrical charges build up much more readily and to a greater level than in warmer, humid environments. MAke sure that earthing strap is well connected!

  

  DOSlover

  11 April, 2011 20:54

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• RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

  I have 2TB of storage on my Desktop, so you probably meant 2PB....

  

  legleye@...

  11 April, 2011 21:40

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• McMurdo and south Pole?

  For some reason I get the impression the author is trying to say that McMurdo station is at the South Pole. McMurdo is on the coast of Antarctica, more than 600 miles from the south Pole (and in a position where East and West are clearly significant). Or to put it another way, McMurdo is about as close to the south Pole as northern Greenland is to the North Pole. Get your facts straight, ZD.

  

  gardoglee

  12 April, 2011 00:20

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• RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

  2Tb of storage - Wow !!!

  

  neilpost

  12 April, 2011 04:18

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• RE: Strangest locations for datacenters (photos)

  2Tb would be impressive,,, if it was on floppies.

  

  What the ...!

  12 April, 2011 08:28

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