> Uber, who operates under managed colo, spends nearly 200M/yr alone on real estate for their datacenters
200 million a year, huh.
The cost of commercial office space in the U.S. can range from $6 per square foot in low cost regions to over $12 per square foot in New York City. On average, a 50-cabinet data center will occupy about 1,700 square feet. At a median cost of $8 per square foot, the space alone would cost about $13,600 per month. [1]
Are Uber renting on the order of two million square feet of data centre? Do they have sixty thousand cabinets of hardware?
If they do, i would absolutely love to see a quote for how much it would cost them to run in the cloud.
I think it's far more likely that number is bullshit.