Roundup: LINX, Site Selection, Tier Choices

SearchDataCenter is beginning a series of stories on data center construction. The first installment looks at site selection, and include some links and resources to be useful if you're contemplating a data center expansion.

Ted Samson from InfoWorld takes a look at the cost issues involved in building a data center and how they relate to the Tier System developed by The Uptime Institute. It includes some data on the average cost per kilowatt of meeting various Tiers.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the world's busiest peering points, was off-line for about an hour last Tuesday. The Register has the details on the incident, which was the second outage at LINX in the past month.