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Movable Clouds Migrate To Chase Tax Breaks
1sockchuck writes "State legislators have been offering huge tax incentives to attract data center projects from cloud-builders. But what happens if the political climate changes and the tax break disappears? If you're Microsoft, you can just take your cloud and move it someplace else. The infrastructure for the Windows Azure platform is being migrated out of a facility in central Washington after the state ruled that data centers no longer qualify for a tax exemption on equipment. Mike Manos, a key player in site selection for many major data centers, predicts that future cloud platforms will move often to chase lower taxes or cheaper power."
Everyone who has ever looked at the sky know that clouds move, and change their movement if the wind changes. And if the cloud gets too big, it starts to lose water by dropping it on the ground, while small clouds tend to evaporate away completely. It's only natural that computing clouds behave the same. Just wait for the first digital thunderstorm in the cloud. And don't be too upset about the data losses.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Considering the track record of tech companies and their quest to save a few bucks at the expense of American jobs, it's just a matter of time before all of your data in the cloud winds up overseas. Who has access to read through your sensitive documents when that time comes? The article shows how easy it us for one cloud provider to uproot the collective data of thousands of companies and move it anywhere they please. Where will they move the data next? Read this article, "Your data in a cloud over India": http://techclub.mypctechs.com/?p=364
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