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Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-megaserver dept.

itwbennett writes "The only thing that's noteworthy about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's recent disclosure that the company has one million servers in its data centers is that he decided to disclose it — most of the industry giants like to keep that information to themselves, says ITworld's Nancy Gohring. But just for fun, Amazon Web Services engineer James Hamilton did the math: One million servers equals 15–30 data centers, a $4.25 billion capital expense, and power consumption of 2.6TWh annually, or the amount of power that would be used by 230,000 homes in the U.S. Whether this is high or low, good or bad is impossible to know without additional metrics."

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  1. Re:and every one of them has an NSA back door. by noh8rz8 · · Score: -1, Troll

    wtf man? why are you ragging on the govt? maybe you should chillax a bit instead of complaining like a mofo. ever occur to you? i didnt think so. syke!

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  2. 1 million servers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doing what exactly?

    Bing? yeah right.. Hotmail? ha... xbox?

    activation servers for the anal probe to make sure you're a legit user? maybe...

    Anyway. we know one thing for sure. it's a bloated waste of space doing fuckall. Just like everything windows touches.