On 1/20/2012 2:18, Invisible wrote:
> Sure. But given that computers are very low-power devices, you don't think
> of a computer plant as something requiring megawatts of power and entire
> rooms of cooling equipment.

Each of those containers has over 1000 computers in it. There's 50 
containers in this one building. (That's a small building for Google.) This 
is from 2005 or so, when computers weren't as efficient.  So how much power 
do you think it takes to run 50,000 computers, plus air conditioning for 
them, if each has (say) 150W power supply?

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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