Conspiracy Theory #1
Justin Johansson
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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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