Conspiracy Theory #1

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com> wrote:
> 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?

I think you need to bump the subject up to Conspiracy Theory #2 now.

--bb