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    Required reading for anyone who wants to have an actual intelligent debate about this topic, rather than speaking out of your own butthole: 10 Places You Don't Want a Data Center

    From this article, it's very clear that California (huge earthquake hotzone, stilling waiting on a long over "big one") and New York City (the densest metropolitan area in the country) are terrible locations for a major data center. Montreal is actually a surprisingly good choice based on its location (it's deceptively close to New York City, Boston, and Chicago), relatively infrequent natural disasters, and an unusually "high-tech" city given its size and population. It also helps that it's roughly equidistant to both California and Europe. Given that they're adding a new EU dedicated data center in Europe, I would highly recommend either Seattle or Vancouver for a "west coast" data center.

    Love the tag on this thread about the Dunning-Kruger effect, though it really should apply to 90% of threads in this forum.
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    Last edited by axemtitanium; 11-20-2014 at 06:38 AM.