21 May
2019
21 May
'19
11:04 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jay West via cctalk once stated:
No modern datacenter that I have seen still uses a
raised floor *OTHER
THAN* about 3 inches for a ground plane. There is a reason for that... the
old idea of forced cooling under the floor and mixing power & data cables
there has been found to be a truly bad idea.
I recall walking through the former IBM main site in Boca Raton [1] in the
late 90s with a few friends. We were amazed to see labs with six-foot deep
pits---the tiles long gone and all cables removed. It was quite the sight
to see.
-spc
[1] Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.3912323,-80.1059743,3a,75y,272.91h,88.2t/da…
The building is rated for a class-5 hurricane. It's quite
impressive.