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Re:Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in ... by deno on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:48AM (#14376146)
Fair enough, I thought it had something to do with the portable aspects of the generator in particular.

I am of the opinion that oil should really not be wasted for things that don’t require very high energy density, unlike transportation etc. But setting up a coal plant seems like a project of entirely different magnitude.

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Re:Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in ... by vezycash on Saturday May 20, 2017 @03:03PM (#14383790)
The margin in the telecom business is crazy high. As far as I know, no network in West Africa provides unlimited phone calls. - mostly prepaid and per second billing.

In other words, input (diesel in this case) is directly related to output (profit.)

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