Why Japan’s Data Centers Are Built With Perfection?

There are few very important reasons why Japan successfully developed very solid and strong foundation data centers. In my own opinion, one of the reasons, perhaps, would be because the country is always visited by tremors. If the Japanese government would not put strong emphasis on strongly-built buildings and other structures, the recent killer quake in the country could have destroyed most of the biggest data centers in the country.

History would tell us that the Japan government had been doing its best to protect its business interests and to keep data and other applications of large companies and corporations in a much safe and sound environment. I don’t know exactly the extent of damage to data centers but recent reports had it that there were only slight damage that happened to the country’s largest data centers.

In a related development, the Amazon.com is also reported to have developed equally-strong data centers in New Jersey, USA. The company’s data centers support its cloud computing platforms. Recently, during a technology open house sponsored by Amazon.com, the company presented to the audience how they were able to established excellent and elegant structures and systems for the company’s growing concerns for much safe and sound data center environment.

Highly respected engineer, James Hamilton, of Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) discussed the company’s infrastructure during the technology open house. He said the company’s data center is also built with perfection and can be seen through the executive’s report which is in PDF format. Amazon uses modular data center design. “Every day Amazon Web Services adds enough new capacity to support all of Amazon.com’s global infrastructure through the company’s first 5 years, when it was a $2.76 billion annual revenue enterprise,” Hamilton states in one of the slides.

Hamilton also explained that the company has recently expanded its data centers to answer to the growing concerns for safe and dependable data center. Relative to this report, the company has now started acquiring additional locations for more data centers especially in northern Virginia, Oregon and Ireland. Hamilton reported the company’s estimated cost for the data center development projects would reach to more than $88 million. That’s about $11 million per megawatt that the company is likely to invest in the coming months.