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Re:Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Da... by nknight on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @01:09PM (#3374424)
I have absolutely no idea what Groupon's load actually looks like, but as for actual datacenter cost, $1,000/sqft would be a starting minimum, and that's for a decent sized datacenter where some economies of scale kick in. Google supposedly spends as much as $3000.

One of the smaller datacenters I've ever been in was around 20-30,000 square feet. Replicating it probably would have cost closer to $3000/sqft than $1000, so you're probably talking about $40 million minimum.

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Re:Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Da... by vijayr on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @01:45PM (#3374562)
The article says they raised 700M. Even if costs them 100M to build a data center, they can't use 1/7th of the money they raised, to build one? How exactly are they spending that much money?
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Re:Source: Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Da... by nknight on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:07PM (#3374644)
A reasonable question to which I have no clear answer, but this is the company that tried to turn a $420 million operating loss for 2010 into a $60 million operating income by amortizing their marketing and acquisition costs. Perhaps they're still bleeding money on such costs?
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