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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by Animats on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @09:53PM (#11207816)
Looks like a small data center under construction by converting an existing building. Large amounts of HVAC equipment for the size of the building. Cooling towers. Big fuel tank. Cummins Diesel emergency generator, size around 1MW. Lots of electrical conduit on outside of building.[1] Picnic area and half basketball court. Several construction trailers on site, so some remodeling is going on. Beeping trucks and banging on sheet metal sounds like HVAC work.

It's annoying the neighbors because it's directly across a drainage ditch from suburban houses. Nobody likes nighttime industrial construction opposite their backyard.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/dcK3MjKdh822

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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by relevant_thing on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @10:38PM (#11207949)
A residential area in Sunnyvale seems like an inopportune place to put a data center.
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by meddlepal on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @12:22AM (#11208236)
Why? Not an expert on DC location or construction. What makes it any better or worse than somewhere else?
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by okuli on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @12:38AM (#11208285)
- land price

- water/electricity price

- local wages

- internet bandwidth

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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by jsjohnst on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:11AM (#11210810)
I'll agree with most of your points as to why it's not likely the most cost effective, but the point re: internet bandwidth is just absurd.
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by mtmail on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @06:20AM (#11209271)
Area with expected earthquakes.
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by jsjohnst on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @01:02AM (#11208359)
I know of at least five large data centers in the Sunnyvale / Santa Clara area.
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by praneshp on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @01:44AM (#11208448)
Mind sharing names? My company shut down its Santa Clara DCs around two years ago for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by jsjohnst on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:08AM (#11210784)
A quick Google search would easily answer this for you, but I'll oblige.

Equinix SV2, SV4, SV6 are all in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, but Equinix also has 4 more very close by in Palo Alto, Mountain View, and/or San Jose.

CenturyLink has two DCs in Sunnyvale.

You can find a dozen more listed here:

http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/santa-clara/

And this doesn't include the many privately held by major internet brands in the Valley.

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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by praneshp on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:35AM (#11210995)
Thanks. Should've googled it myself. One of the first things I got to do when I joined my company(first job, just moving into the valley) was to tour our soon-to-be-dead DC. Was a really cool experience.
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Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex by cdubzzz on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @08:55AM (#11209888)
Look at the map GP posted. That residential block is sided by the Apple complex, a block of large industrial buildings, a Home Depot and an expressway.
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