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Global bit barn baron Equinix has opened its newest data centre in Sydney, just 90 metres from the shores of the Alexandria Canal, a waterway that in the late 1800s was envisaged as linking Botany Bay to Sydney Harbour. The digging barely made it a tenth of the way, but that was enough to make it a useful place to situate …

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    1. Nigel 11
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      Re: Couldn't they just put it on the 5th floor?

      My thought also. Or choose a location reasonably uphill of sea level and any nearby rivers.

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    2. Tim Starling
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      Re: Couldn't they just put it on the 5th floor?

      There is no 5th floor.

      http://www.itnews.com.au/Gallery/323008,photos-equinix-opens-phase-two-of-sy3-data-centre.aspx/18#pic

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  2. Robert Grant

    escalated?

    Is this the new "raised"?

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  3. sabba
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    What, haven't you heard...

    ...never, ever, under any circumstances, put it on the fifth floor!!!

    C'mon. Surely you've heard!!

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  4. Jim Ettles 1
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    It's Stephen Conroy!

    We ARE allowed to mention Senator Conroy's surname these days since he has nixed the Great Firewall of Oz.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    So where are the generators?

    Or will those be engulfed by the flood waters, rendering them inoperable and leaving the colo dead in the water (no puns, please, we're IT professionals).

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