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Re: Power, Data Centres ,and Iceland

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Aug 16 22:30:36 2007

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:45:42 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <171423de0708161530h5566e590kabd6af62b03ef1fc@mail.gmail.com> from "Scott Francis" at Aug 16, 2007 03:30:12 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


 > How much is power as a percent of data centre operating expense? What sort
 > of a range do you see?


A serial entrepreneur friend just closed his colo business.

He labeled it "reselling electricity, at a loss.."

If you have sea water available for cooling, that will 
further cut your power usage.



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