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[alimdia]

When I heard the NA data center was changing, my first guess was somewhere in El Segundo, CA, because that's where the NA office is, and there are a lot of data centers in the area.

If it's in Sacramento, that's still just a 1hr flight from the NA Square-Enix office.

Offices have nothing to do with data centers, the people working at the office have zero access to anything server related.

[Sagittarii]

Offices have nothing to do with data centers, the people working at the office have zero access to anything server related.

How do you know this?

[Vhailor]

How do you know this?

It's a reasonable guess, though there's no hard evidence one way or another.

Generally speaking, data centres don't share a location with office space. There are some exceptions - particularly if a company has built a large campus-style office complex - but if they haven't, it's likely they're housed separately.

The main reason for this, of course, is that office space / data centre space is typically rented or purchased from someone else. Most buildings are built with one or the other in mind, not both. So the probability of a company like SE, that hasn't built a large complex within the US, magically finding a dual-purpose location that works well for office space and data centre storage, is rather low.

[Sagittarii]

It's a reasonable guess, though there's no hard evidence one way or another.

All companies do their own thing, but I've worked for a few companies that hosted web services and leased data center space. In each of these companies, the network/server team worked out of one of the offices and rarely visited the data center unless it was necessary. All the gear was accessible via remote tools, so there was no need to be there unless something major was happening.