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Re:Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal by ivankirigin on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @01:00PM (#84346)
OReilly: One of the first times I met Larry Page, long before Google went public, when he was still driving a bright blue VW bug, he was telling me how for Google, the annual energy cost of each processor they put online was greater than the cost of the processor itself. (This may actually have been lifetime energy cost. It's a long time and I don't remember exactly, so I don't want to put words in his mouth.) Energy is one of the key costs for anyone running a large server farm, and keeping that cost under control is a key element of competitive advantage.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/google_energy_stra...

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Re:Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal by far33d on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @01:42PM (#84359)
This becomes more and more true as your processors are more spread out all over the world, sometimes in remote locations. I heard google chooses data center locations based on proximity and access to power, which is probably very limiting.
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