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Do you genuinely believe that a company with such a huge investment in data centers is demonstrating a lack of focus by concerning themselves with energy?
by tentonova2 17y ago
Do you genuinely believe that a company with such a huge investment in data centers is demonstrating a lack of focus by concerning themselves with energy?
- ElliotH 17y agoIt is advantageous to them to have power, sure - but it doens't really directly contribute to their goal of organising the worlds information does it? IMO they would do better to offer hard-to-turn down deals to energy companies in return for guaranteed clean power. (it would be a hell of a thing to have on your power companies adverts)
- tentonova2 17y agoIt is advantageous to them to have power, sure - but it doens't really directly contribute to their goal of organising the worlds information does it? Is it any stranger than designing and commissioning the manufacture of their own server hardware as to achieve a more efficient ratio of price/reliability for their specific use-case? There's a lot of information to organize, and doing it efficiently at scale requires moving quite a bit farther down the stack.
- mkelly 17y agoI agree. A large-scale web company should care very much about power. Designing your own hardware also, incidentally, lets you control power consumption.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoAndrew Carnegie would have agreed.