Depends on the price of the land.
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Cost. It’s slightly cheaper. And I do mean slightly.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Yeah that’s the only difference. Usually land is cheaper. But building high in the middle of nowhere is only like 5% more expensive.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
That’s complete bullshit. Building one floor on cheap land is way, way cheaper than building high on expensive land.
source: Wyoming.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
It’s also not the core purpose of the data center. The building is a shell protecting racks of servers, the core purpose of a data center. Why spend anymore than absolutely necessary when it would not increase the output of that core purpose.