DISQUS

thatedeguy · 3 years ago

Matt, it's Dalles, not Dulles.
Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

Thanks, edeguy -- already fixed. I guess I was just a little too eager to make that joke about "The Dullest" :-)
Josh · 3 years ago

Damn. I will never complain about my energy bill again. It's a good thing they aren't building those farms here in Ontario. Sounds like Google alone would be enough to put us in perpetual brownouts.

Seriously though, I wonder how much longer this type of growth will continue. They could be at 5 million servers by the end of the decade.
Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

A good point, Josh. I wonder if in the future, Google will favour areas that have cheap hydroelectricity -- like Quebec perhaps.
Vanessa Williams · 3 years ago

According to Jonathan Schwartz (Sun's new CEO):

"talk to some web 2.0 startups, you'll hear many say their second biggest operating expense, after salaries, is electricity"

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry...

Something has got to give, and Google's dreams of storing all the information in the world on their own servers is unrealistic (not to mention "gevil").