Did You Read It? Tonight, chapter six of Life After Google, by George Gilder: The Dalles, Oregon, where Google bought thirty acres beside a dam in 2005 for its first own data center. Power at a fifth of San Francisco's price, 75,000 servers a warehouse, nearly two billion dollars in one small town, and property taxes mostly waived. The lesson: waste what's cheap to save what's scarce, your time.
Chapter six of Life After Google visits The Dalles, Oregon, where Google bought thirty acres beside a 1.8-gigawatt dam in 2005 for its first owned data center: power at about a fifth of the San Francisco price, 75,000 servers in each of three warehouses, close to two billion dollars sunk into one small town and a general exemption from property taxes; the lesson Gilder draws is that winners waste what is abundant, storage and bandwidth, to save what is scarce, the user's time, and that the cloud is the heavy industry of the age.
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