[90836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Fri Jun 16 13:48:26 2006
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:47:38 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
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>I wonder just how much power it takes to cool 450,000 servers.
I've heard mumbles that the per kWh rates from=20
Bonneville in the locations along the Columbia=20
are in the sub-4=A2 range.
Grant county is seeing a huge fiber building boom=20
as a result. It will be more wired up than King=20
county soon. Woody was here last night and=20
remarked (feel free to correct me if I misquote=20
you Bill) that it was funny that nowadays=20
"network geeks were more interested in kilowatts=20
than kilobits"
--chuck (in Seattle)
