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To: Robert Rose who wrote (118020)	2/18/2001 11:21:32 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) of 164684

In a recent post i mentioned that electricity consumption in silicon valley was growing 6% per yr in the 90s. The same SJ Mercury News article mentioned server farms such as Santa Clara-based exds as contributing significantly to that growth rate. I am sure this is an ignorant question but I am wondering why these server farms have to locate in silicon valley. It has become evident that increasing the power supply in that area is going to be a costly and time consuming task. It would seem cost advantageous for the server farms or at least many of them, to relocate to where power is currently more plentiful. I know many of the high tech employees reside in silicon valley but would not many relocate to where the work is too? This seems like common sense to me. Glenn

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