UK's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station takes an eye off the sky to strike out into data centre biz

Goonhilly Earth Station, the Cornish-based satellite comms and space tech hub, has cut the ribbon on a data centre to sell colocation and managed services. The facility can support around 500kW of IT but could be expanded in the future, with up to 5MW of power up for grabs. A part of the bit barn was designed for HPC …

[Anonymous Coward]

500KW

That's only about 25 modern rack fulls.

Barely a co lo - more of a large broom closet.

[Dan 55]

Re: 500KW

Still, it helps pay the bills and shows they're more interested in keeping it a going concern than, say, Dundee.

[Shaun_Dark_Lord]

But.......

But can it play Doom 2 RTX?

[MJI]

Nice area

And lots of decent food.

Two major food groups covered.

Pastys - quite a few decent bakers, every large village or small town has one.

Cornish Ice Cream - nice ones near St Keverne

I did the tour when it was still open.

Unfortunately St Keverne area also had the most expensive petrol I have ever bought, but I had to as I had just run low on Autogas and did not have enough to get to Helston - Falmouth road.

Whole area is great. Lots of lovely small quiet beaches, gardens, food and drink. Pubs. Secluded inlets. Basically anything south of a line between Truro and Penzance.

I can think of more than 10 good beaches. More than 10 good pubs. Enough pasty outlets to not starve. And enough cheesy chip places as well.

Culdrose had a good tour as well, also have a look at Poldu for the Marconi stuff.

[D@v3]

Re: Nice area

I remember going as a kid, maybe 20 years ago, and being able to look round the visitor center.

Went back a few years ago, probably around 2014/15 and it was all closed down, you could wander round the site but there wasn't (or didn't appear to be) much going on. There was an off road segway tour, but that was closed in the off season.

Was actually back there a few weeks ago, hoping for another walk around the site, but that was all closed off, now i know why. Glad to see it is getting another go of things.

[TheDillinquent]

Catapult?

They use rockets elsewhere.