On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Justin Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> > 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/ >> >> Makes perfect sense. > > Oh, is that why the country is melting away?
I think you need to bump the subject up to Conspiracy Theory #2 now. --bb
