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May 19, 2005
How important power is to technology...
I remember when we choose a new office for Loudeye, we didn't much consider the power requirements. We figured we were right smack dab in the middle of the city and we coul get all the power we could ever want right? Wrong. The building only had 800 amps. We needed something like 2000. The local power vault for the block wasn't big enough. Know what you have to do to get more power? That's right, pay for a grid upgrade for your whole block! So we did.
Google knows this. This guy: phil ringnalda dot com: Just how much power does Google need? dug into the Google purchase of some land in The Dalles Oregon right next to the BPA hydro dam. That's right, a steady supply of power for a data center. If you are going to have a Google size data center you need a Google of power and you can't get that everywhere. Access to clean affordable electricity is increasingly becomming THE critical issue in large compute farms.
Posted by Martin at May 19, 2005 5:42 PM
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