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To: QwikSand who wrote (63591)1/3/2006 8:44:37 AM
From: Sam Citron  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Ask Google what their power bill is. It's unfathomably large. It's probably as large as their payroll.

I e-mailed Jonathan to ask for the basis of that opinion. His response:

What I said was second to their personnel expense, my bet was power was
their biggest bill. I'd venture a guess they have a few more than 40,000
servers (and interesting analysis is here:

tnl.net

And no matter what, their power bill is huge - as are the power bills of
most companies deploying web infrastructure. Which is why we introduced
a server that's 5x more power efficient... it's an awfully big market.

What's more interesting is the 3M new internet users a week - how many
cpu's will they require, and therefore, what's the collective power bill?

--Sam
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