Data center as a Investment

[troubled soul]

Data center becoming is very IMP for modern age.
Has anyone into Data center business?
Is it possible to start small scale Data center ?
Data center as a real estate investment any opportunity available.
What are your experience with it ?

If you want to star your own data center ...What is the best Business model ?
Which client market is best for this ?

has anybody started data center ?

Thanks

 

[cuno]

Why would you want to start a data center? I believe you mean something similar to a hosting center, with servers, underground server rooms a project that will cost a few millions to be something useful right?

 

[uranium]

Data center becoming is very IMP for modern age.
Has anyone into Data center business?
Is it possible to start small scale Data center ?
Data center as a real estate investment any opportunity available.
What are your experience with it ?

If you want to star your own data center ...What is the best Business model ?
Which client market is best for this ?

has anybody started data center ?

Thanks

Why are you going into new business without experience at all. You will be taken advantage off.
You have money and want to invest it, 2 choices
Hight risk, high return: Btc
Low risk sleep well , rich forever: etf like Voo, expense only : 0.03%.
It is not easy to run a business. Why run a business if you can invest in the whole economy without any work
Just sleep and travel and have fun. 10% return per year

 

[void]

Why run a business if you can invest in the whole economy without any work
Just sleep and travel and have fun. 10% return per year

if only this was that easy...

 

[uranium]

if only this was that easy...

Easy for him if he has millions

 

[myhand]

I say OP what you are into is too complicated. I know another well known member of this forum that sold his datacenter last year I believe. Why? because it was a bad investment.

 

[Martin Everson]

If you want to star your own data center ...What is the best Business model ?

You need real capital for anything at commercial scale. You then need to consider fail-over data center etc etc for any big customer to take it seriously so you need at least two.

Unless you got real capital you can just lease rack space and sub lease it and become the WeWork of rack space...lol.

P.S Energy costs for a data center alone will cripple you unless you have a cheap energy source .

 

[troubled soul]

P.S Energy costs for a data center alone will cripple you unless you have a cheap energy source .

Yes I found the cheap energy source ....that's why I starting to research online about data center business...Thimphu TechPark , Bhutan

TTPL Web

www.thimphutechpark.bt

Rate applicable to tenants at IT Park is INR 3.53 per unit (KWh)

Bhutan has great source of hydropower....Capacity to reach 20k MW....All are renewable .....
Thimphu TechPark is Kind of free zone of Bhutan. They desperately looking for FDI.. IT sector, hospitality,5 star hotel, 100% ownership allowed......... thinking seriously about this

 

[uranium]

Yes I found the cheap energy source ....that's why I starting to research online about data center business...Thimphu TechPark , Bhutan

TTPL Web

www.thimphutechpark.bt

Bhutan has great source of hydropower....Capacity to reach 20k MW....All are renewable .....
Thimphu TechPark is Kind of free zone of Bhutan. They desperately looking for FDI.. IT sector, hospitality,5 star hotel, 100% ownership allowed......... thinking seriously about this

Thimphu TechPark: I have checked pictures of how it looks like
Stay away, looks like undeveloped country. That techpark look nothing like tech to me. Looks like 3 star hotel in a mountain. Why would you leave first world country and go to undeveloped country. I doubt you will have electricity issues in mountain. This not Switzerland to expect top notch quality in desert. Wake up please

 

[madihrb]

Yes I found the cheap energy source ....that's why I starting to research online about data center business...Thimphu TechPark , Bhutan

TTPL Web

www.thimphutechpark.bt

Bhutan has great source of hydropower....Capacity to reach 20k MW....All are renewable .....
Thimphu TechPark is Kind of free zone of Bhutan. They desperately looking for FDI.. IT sector, hospitality,5 star hotel, 100% ownership allowed......... thinking seriously about this

I also looked to open data center few years back as I am in the same industry. The problem is its very expensive to open data center and you need atleast few millions. Apart from cost, its highly technical business, not everyone can open it and manage it. Now the Bhutan part, you cannot open where electricity is cheap as you need latency i.e where internet users are there, for example US client will need server inside USA, Indian clients will prefer data center either in India, Dubai or Singapore.

 

[Marshal]

If you have access to cheap electricity why not consider crypto mining? Or just buy Nvidia stock. It's like investing in crypto mining, but on the side

 

[wellington]

I have a data centre in my garage that was from a high end AI processing system pre-covid, sitting there gathering dust if someone wants to make use of it and put it to work, so i can empty my garage lol.

Data center becoming is very IMP for modern age.
Has anyone into Data center business?
Is it possible to start small scale Data center ?
Data center as a real estate investment any opportunity available.
What are your experience with it ?

If you want to star your own data center ...What is the best Business model ?
Which client market is best for this ?

has anybody started data center ?

Thanks

 

[JohnLocke]

If you have access to cheap electricity why not consider crypto mining? Or just buy Nvidia stock. It's like investing in crypto mining, but on the side

That was also the first thing that came to my mind when I read through the thread about all the troubles with the data center project.

 

[Sols]

Electricity is one big piece of the puzzle but it's all for nothing if you don't have good interconnectivity. Before you spend millions building a data center in Bhutan compare these two:

Networks of Bhutan - bgp.he.net

Networks: Bhutan

bgp.he.net

Networks of Switzerland - bgp.he.net

Networks: Switzerland

bgp.he.net

Both are similar in area, both are landlocked, both are mountainous.

Your state of the art Bhutan data center is going to remind people of the dial-up modem era in terms of bandwidth speed and latency, unless the users are in Bhutan and India.

To have any chance of decent connectivity (speed, latency, stability), you'll need to find multiple routes down to Singapore. India is OK but Singapore is where you want to be.

 

[Paul Tudor Jones]

You're only about 5 years too late...

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Data center REITs are only now starting to "rerate" against a backdrop of rising interest rates and tightening financial conditions, Jim Chanos, founder and managing partner of Chanos...

seekingalpha.com

Jim Chanos Takes Aim at Data Centers and Their High Valuations

The celebrated bear is aiming at data centers, the IT backbone of big corporations. Their high valuations make them vulnerable.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[jafo]

Data center becoming is very IMP for modern age.
Has anyone into Data center business?
Is it possible to start small scale Data center ?
Data center as a real estate investment any opportunity available.
What are your experience with it ?

If you want to star your own data center ...What is the best Business model ?
Which client market is best for this ?

has anybody started data center ?

Thanks

Are you interested in it for the expectation of high returns or because you have a passion for running data centers?

 

[troubled soul]

Are you interested in it for the expectation of high returns or because you have a passion for running data centers?

High return

 

[void]

where is your edge? the first question one should always ask the first
if it's access to super cheap energy then secure for your self via long-term contract and sell it to pros (most likely miners)
if you have local contacts make it as easy as possible for anyone coming to use your energy
if none of this applies forget it... idea itself has no value, edge counts, (wasted) time is priceless

 

[whatname]

Maybe you should invest in ipv4 ranges, think of them like houses you rent. But maybe not, maybe ipv6 will take over

 

[Alexmorgan]

Data Center is a big game

Needs 100s of Millions for setting up the servers and man power and advertising

Digital ocian or amazon or zoho are big competators now alibaba got into the game