Server Farms can located anywhere where two essential things can be provided, power and shelter. Server farms were earlier mainly preferred to be located near to the establishment. But lately the trend is changing with increasing size of server farms and data centers and the international operations being handled by a server. This has led to servers being located everywhere and anywhere.
Some of the world’s largest server farms are maintained by Google and Facebook which have their bases in various places around the world. It is no longer the proximity to the establishment that is looked at before setting up a server farm. Place that are located almost nowhere on the map are being chosen as data centers. With the need of data centers becoming important in almost every industry and to every institution, they have become a vital part of the functioning of the society and more importantly for the functioning of the e-commerce industry along with its connected industries. There has been an uncontrolled growth of the requirement of server farms. For this reason server farm manufactures are looking at locations away from the establishment where the cost of running it will be lower. With continuously increasing competition, the cost of stating a server is very little, what costs is to run this server. Servers require lots of power to run and to keep the heat to the minimum. This makes it very important for server farm manufactures to look at a place which has low cost power and no power outage. This cause is pushing developers to great extents to find reliable places which can have all the best features. Google is investing in wind farms somewhere in Atlanta for powering its optical fiber networks and data centers. Many other manufacturers are looking at cheaper ways of saving power by innovative ways to cool the server farm clusters.
