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Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-state dept.

1sockchuck writes "All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud. It resides in servers and data centers. That's why Amazon.com is quietly building a large data center complex in Oregon along the Columbia River, not far from Google's secret data lair in The Dalles. Amazon Web Services started as a way to monetize excess data center capacity for its retail operation, but has grown to the point where it requires dedicated infrastructure. Amazon recently said that its S3 cloud storage service is hosting 29 billion objects."

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  1. I feel a slight sense of jealousy by CdBee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .. my files are getting to see parts of the world I've never even been to, via Jungledisk. Anyway, as an S3 customer, the more data centres they have, the better.

    On an Ecological level I hope electricity in Oregon is mainly nuclear, wind or Hydro....

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    1. Re:I feel a slight sense of jealousy by Snowblindeye · · Score: 4, Informative

      .On an Ecological level I hope electricity in Oregon is mainly nuclear, wind or Hydro....

      Yes, Hydro. Thats the main reason these companies are moving their data centers to Oregon: The availability of cheap and plentiful hydro power.

      Lots of dark fiber that is well connected, as well as tax breaks, also help.

    2. Re:I feel a slight sense of jealousy by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Interesting

      What I don't get is if it is power they want,why they don't come to AR. We got Nuclear power(so it's cheap) and we have a TON of abandoned Titan 2 missile silos that would be kick ass for data centers. They are deep enough underground that the cooling bills would be a whole lot cheaper,they would probably get a huge break on their insurance because nobody is going to get through those blast doors without permission,and they have been selling the things so cheap that some folks are actually turning them into houses. Plus I'm sure they have plenty of power and communication lines already run to hook them into the defense grid,and here in AR they are happy to give out huge tax breaks for anyone willing to bring their business here. It seems to me like it would be an easy way to save money on a data center.

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  2. Re:Google is absurd about this by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If by "stupidly secretive" you mean "thrifty and not buying all the latest aerial imagery all the time"...

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  3. Huh? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud.

    What? Now he tells me.

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  4. Re:That Oregon Columbia electricity is not "clean" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A dam-installed hydro turbine is a slow thing, not a blender or a jet engine.

    Turbine-passage survival is a complicated function of gap sizes, runner blade angles, wicket gate openings and overhang, and water passageway flow patterns.

    The very latest set of retrofits at the Columbia and Snake dams had a goal of 98% survivability for turbine-passing fish, and higher for flume-passing fish. These retrofits are not only better for the fish, but produce more power.

  5. To Oregon? by dissy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amazon's Cloud Data Center to Follow Google to Oregon

    Amazon has died of dysentery.