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Originally Posted by john70t
Another earth-hugging FB data center in Sweden: Facebook Goes Global With Data Center in Sweden
The tech is sweet and futuristic and all that, but....
1). It shows how much electricity is still being turned into heat-loss in today's inefficient computer systems.
2). Both companies have gobs of money to spend on these projects.
-Where does this money come from?
-How will they produce a future return on this infrastructure? Replace Comcast or Ebay? Banking?
3). There's a whole lot of customer data being processed....cough... |
It's so terribly cheap from a capital standpoint though; the power and hardware that is. The big cost is in the opex department, human resources.