Conspiracy Theory #1

Justin Johansson no at spam.com
Fri Nov 20 17:50:48 PST 2009


Walter Bright Wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> >> BCS wrote:
> >>> Even if you have network parallelism, CPU loads still costs money. 
> >>> Many server farms are not space limited but power limited. They can't 
> >>> get enough power out of the power company to run more servers. (And 
> >>> take a guess at what there power bills cost!)
> >>
> >> I've often wondered why the server farms aren't located in Alaska, for 
> >> free cooling, and the waste heat used to heat local businesses. They 
> >> can turn a cost (cooling) into a revenue source (charge local 
> >> businesses for heat).
> > 
> > http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/27/am_iceland_data_farm/ 
> 
> Makes perfect sense.

Oh, is that why the country is melting away?




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