A few racks or even a couple of dozen racks could be called a datacenter, but nothing on any real scale. Enough to host important and niche things? Sure. I was referring more to like the size of what you might see in Quincy, WA.
replyPionen is small but it is quite a bit bigger than "a couple of dozen racks". More like 100-200 if I recall correctly.
replyBy 1990's standards that was small. Today it is tiny.
replyIn the US the most common deployed size is below 5MW?
replyDont know why i can't reply to the person commenting below. But where's the statistics? Who has these datacenters out in the field?
Yes, but that's not where the volume is. A 'small' data center, even here in Europe has 100's of racks. There are of course many tiny ones but collectively they don't even add up to one single large Google or AWS DC. Those things will run in excess of 1 or even 2 GW.
replyAccording to their site, Pionen has 1.5MW of cooling capacity https://swedendedicated.com/datacenter/
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