Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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?


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