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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.
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