Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Erudito]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this announcement. I just hope they move the servers into a strategic location withing the north american continent and not an area of the west coast where earthquakes are a possibility.

[LunaFaye]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this announcement. I just hope they move the servers into a strategic location withing the north american continent and not an area of the west coast where earthquakes are a possibility.

I don't agree with moving the NA data centers to the west coast, something like Texas would have been much better, but when did we have the last major earth quake over here? Right it been some years, it's happening right after the servers are moving is most likely not happening. On the east coast you would have other disasters to deal with, either way I think the best solution would be the middle instead of limiting ourselves to black and white (east and west coast) only.

[BigRed5392]

I don't agree with moving the NA data centers to the west coast, something like Texas would have been much better, but when did we have the last major earth quake over here? Right it been some years, it's happening right after the servers are moving is most likely not happening. On the east coast you would have other disasters to deal with, either way I think the best solution would be the middle instead of limiting ourselves to black and white (east and west coast) only.

middle US = tornado ally.

heck A decent size tornado hit New orleans and baton rogue a month ago and we still dealing with the flooding that happen mnths prior.
1 tornado even hit behind house when my g.f was home alone. Her first tornado -_-;; lucky my job sent me home.

[Texa]

middle US = tornado ally.

heck A decent size tornado hit New orleans and baton rogue a month ago and we still dealing with the flooding that happen mnths prior.

As a life-long Texas native I'd have to note that it's extremely rare for tornadoes to cause major damage to structures that aren't housing, billboards, or stores. The only instance that comes to mind is the Tornado in Fort Worth 17 years ago that blew out a lot of windows downtown. All of those buildings are still there though, they turned the worst damaged one into condos. Texas can have flooding issues too, but that's mainly in rural areas.

A major plus for here versus the East coast is that we don't get hurricanes. They're always tropical depressions by the time they reach the DFW metroplex.

[ReplicaX]

middle US = tornado ally.

heck A decent size tornado hit New orleans and baton rogue a month ago and we still dealing with the flooding that happen mnths prior.
1 tornado even hit behind house when my g.f was home alone. Her first tornado -_-;; lucky my job sent me home.

Natural Disasters are pretty low on the totem poll when compared to the higher priorities needed for Data Center planning. No matter where you go, there is a threat. SE also has experience in dealing with them as the Company is in Japan. XI DCs have been their since 2002, besides the XIV DCs. Dealing with several Natural Disasters, the Company mostly dealt with Power Issues with the majority of the events.

Yet you do not see NY, Dallas, St. Louis, and Chicago. Major Backbone hubs with thousands of Datacenters and servers closing their doors. In fact over the years they are constantly improving those services and investing.