Sears? Heads Up
Excerpt cut n Paste To help raise cash for that future, Sears announced on Tuesday that it was looking to split off its Lands’ End and Sears Auto Center brands, two of the company’s best-known asse...
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mena661 wrote:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/retailwire/2013/05/31/sears-replaces-retail-stores-with-data-centers/
I think you need to re-read these. As I said the thing these old stores have going for them is available space, and electrical feeds, but that's about it. Its a re-purposeing of the real estate. Moreover, the articles highlight the need to re-engineer the mechanical in the facilities to turn them into useable data centers. This is major work we're talking about, not just a matter of hooking up the data circuits and putting some racks on the floor. Its a cool idea, but I think you just misunderstand what needs to happen to make these state of the art data centers.
