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Re:Microsoft's video accidentally reveals that they have onl... by gaius on Friday August 15, 2008 @06:27AM (#276906)
Google builds, Microsoft (as far as anyone knows) buys. It could be that Google simply can't economically source the components and/or make them work to use fewer larger servers. Or it could be that Google prefers to rip out an entire server when it fails rather than repairing it in-place, so they want each one as small/cheap as possible and don't really care about compute power per server.

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