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Google's Addiction to Cheap Electricity
Googling Yourself writes "Harpers magazine has published a blueprint of Google's new data center at The Dalles, Oregon where they will be tapping into some of the cheapest electricity in North America. Although the plans show three 68,680-square-foot storage buildings, only two of the buildings have been constructed so far. Based on a projected industry standard of 500 watts per square foot, the Dalles plant can be expected to use 103 megawatts of electricity. Google's server farm represents a new phase in the transformation of the Columbia River over the past half-century. Across the street from the Google data center is an example the last generation of high energy consumers; Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask.com are also planning data centers on the Columbia River."
Why don't they build it in DC? The amount of political hot-air around these days would surely be sufficient to power a substantial wind farm.
News at 11.
Quick, submit a new story to /., "Google uses lots of internet bandwidth".
-mrxak
Onions Will Kill You
The sun goes down at night (you need to get out more), and the wind stops. Water, on the other hand, doesn't stop falling.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Download a file, kill a salmon.
dude, google is kind of an around the clock operation :p
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As far as I can tell, you didn't make any of them up ;)
That would be offset by the cost of having to learn a new language, new customs, etc. I mean, what's the exchange rate between a hockey goal and a touchdown nowadays? When do you append "eh" to the end of a sentence? How, exactly, are you supposed to say "schedule"? These are all serious barriers to companies relocating to Canada.
I was in a state office and blurted out "Oregon has much natural beauty, but as a state it sucks." I thought I committed a faux pas, but everyone started laughing.
Its true. We have a do nothing photo op governor who is a democrat, both houses of legislature are controlled by democrats, and nothing gets done despite all of that. We are the laughing stock of states in the union.
(oh, I forgot- "save the children," "pedophile related," and "meth laws" always pass) but thats the same anywhere
You, too, need to get outside more. Sometimes water falls from the sky (that's the blue dome overhead) and gets everything wet. It doesn't just fall in your glass. It falls on EVERYTHING and gets it all wet. Not like in Return to Castle Wolfenstein where the rain falls and falls and nothing gets wet.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Actually, I didn't make that last line up.
Actually, Portland is also home to one of the largest populations of persons who are in the process of altering their gender. At Saturday Market, First Thursday in the Pearl or Last Thursday on Alberta Street, or any afternoon on NW 23rd Avenue or SE Hawthorn, you can count several representatives of more than half a dozen distinctly different genders in fifteen minutes.
Oregon has places that everyone should visit. Such as Seaside (ask about the exploding whale). The Falls at Oregon City (stay upwind of the paper factory). The Interstate Highways through Portland and Eugene are always good for hours of radio entertainment during the weekday commuting times. So do bring your tourist dollars. But you will want to leave before the rains set in, because it takes years to learn how to manage your personal crop of bodily mildew, and that learning experience is not pleasant for the student or anyone in proximity with a working nose.
As the song says ...
A host is a host from coast to coast
But no one will talk to a host that's close
Unless of course the host that's close is busy, hung, or dead.