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Looking for Europe colocation with metered, low cost electricity
hey folks,
I am looking to colocate around 13U of servers/switch, some of which have GPUs inside, though they don't run 100% of the time. electricity price at home is excessive.
The best solution, but we can look at other options, would be something like this:
- 13U+ Must be able to host servers at 87cm post-to-post. (If it really changes things we can probably make it become 12U)
- 4x16A or 2x32A circuit (to be used 80%) with metered / switched per-socket (I can provide PDUs if necessary). The maximum consumption which you will not often see is 8kW.
- 3 kW always on plus a metered option for extra or average consumption. For average i think we should calculate 5 kW. For metered, anything above 0.26eur /kwh (PUE included) is disqualifying. We are probably looking at France or Nordics i guess.
- OOB access for IPMI
- 10 Gb link with 25TB or 1G link.
- 8 IPs
If anybody is willing to, I'd be happy to discuss.
I have some options which are very doable price wise for this in the US but I am just a bit worried tomorrow Trump siezes everything or ceases trade with my country (Switzerland), lol.
Comments
You do not have a chance for 0.26EUR per kwh in Europe currently, unless you look at Nordic countries, but I am hearing some change of market there as well. Home power is usually cheaper than datacenters.
I could probably do more fixed + metered overusage, however not at 0.26EUR per kwh.
PS. I think you had a ticket with us, responded back with some additional options.
Hi,
two factors will give you a hard time:
if your servers are of 87cm length you might not even fit in a 100cm rack, so you will need a colocationpartner who can provide 120cm deepth racks
12-13U ~ 1/4 - 1/3 of a rack @ up to 8kw? -- So the rack / datacenter must be able to cool a 20-30kw rack? reliable?
This 2 factor's are actually disqualifying the 26 cent. Even for the USA finding a rack that can cool up to 30kw power is at this pricing not too much easy, while with the new political reality the USA might anyway be disqualified even they would give it for free.
Your post sounds like you have already offers >26 cent /khw -- where ever that might be, please ensure that they can really cool this amount of heat in a single rack. Talk is cheap... until your GPU's are crashing.
Good luck!