On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:31:05 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> On 21/01/2012 05:42 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
> 
> As I say, the point is that most people will never see 50,000 computers
> in one place all at once.

That isn't really necessary to be able to do the math....

Jim

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