Hi, Google bought in March 2009 a whole factory building in Summa, Finland, with EUR 40 million. They are installing servers there. Kinda interesting project -I am curious in knowing about the waste heat (the link is to the Finnish newspaper article with an image): http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/Google+investoi+Haminaan+200+miljoonaa+euroa/1135244018214 Ari Saarto Finland the fin-land - navigare necesse est - http://asaarto1.blogspot.com/ On 20. loka 2009, at 14:19, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > For example: why locate the server farm in Texas, where it's quite > hot a lot of the year and still more power must be used to keep it > cool? > Why not locate it a few thousand miles north, where what *was* waste > heat is now a useful byproduct? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 20 2009 - 05:53:27 PDT
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