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RE: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Sat Jun 17 00:13:42 2006
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:12:47 -0700
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From: "Christian Nielsen" <cnielsen@microsoft.com>
To: "chuck goolsbee" <chucklist@forest.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This article talks about power and costs:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06164/697875-96.stm
Interesting the power today is being used for cold storage and Aluminum =
plants because it is so cheap.
Christian
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of =
chuck goolsbee
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:48 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power
>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)
