WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

Fri Jun 16 17:47:38 UTC 2006

>I wonder just how much power it takes to cool 450,000 servers.

I've heard mumbles that the per kWh rates from 
Bonneville in the locations along the Columbia 
are in the sub-4¢ range.

Grant county is seeing a huge fiber building boom 
as a result. It will be more wired up than King 
county soon. Woody was here last night and 
remarked (feel free to correct me if I misquote 
you Bill) that it was funny that nowadays 
"network geeks were more interested in kilowatts 
than kilobits"

--chuck (in Seattle)