Data centers on the rise in NW

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft on the Gorge.
From Seattle PI.

Yahoo Day in Chelan County, WA.
From datacenterknowledge.com

The Information Factories (Wired, 14.10).
Notes on the Googleplex.

Google on the Gorge

Slideshow of Google's 30-acre server farm, The Dalles, OR.

From InfoWeek.

Microsoft on the Gorge

Will the Windows desktop disappear into the cloud?

3-min. video profiling Microsoft's cloud computing center in Quincy, WA.

From the 'Beeb' (BBC).

Dark Side of the Cloud: Gigawatts or the Green Grid?

Hidden (& not so hidden) costs of cloud computing: "The planetary machine is on track to be consuming half of all the world's output of electricity by the end of this decade."

The Information Factories (Wired, 14.10). Notes on the Googleplex.

Google uncloaks once-secret server. Google reveals new performance results for data center energy efficiency measured by a standard called power usage effectiveness (PUE), developed by a consortium called the Green Grid.

S3 outage: time to double up

Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?

After the Cloud: The Edge

Looking beyond the cloud:

The edge-centric Internet.

OSCON day 2: Prophet, your path out of the cloud. Open-source conference, Portland, OR.