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?
