Walter Bright wrote:
BCS wrote:
Even if you have network parallelism, CPU loads still costs money.
Many server farms are not space limited but power limited. They can't
get enough power out of the power company to run more servers. (And
take a guess at what there power bills cost!)
I've often wondered why the server farms aren't located in Alaska, for
free cooling, and the waste heat used to heat local businesses. They can
turn a cost (cooling) into a revenue source (charge local businesses for
heat).
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/27/am_iceland_data_farm/
Andrei
