Here's my take on it...
Wasteful CPU chickens come home to roost
This reminds me of the gag gift set of a tanning booth, exercise
machine, and riding lawnmower with awning, except that no one has
connected the dots.
http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?table=n&cat=50100&id=200012151238000293407
...an article about how evil wicked opportunistic power scalpers are
charging huge spot market prices for peak power, mentions near the end
that the California power crisis is in part due to the claimed fact that
a web hosting site can use ten times as much power as a normal business
office building.
Meanwhile, pundits have been pooh-poohing TransMeta's Crusoe processor,
which was designed to run Intel code and sip power.
No one needs that for anything. Just ask Intel.
And yes, I know CPUs are not the whole power budget story. But another
pooh-pooh pitch is that Crusoes can't do much for portable battery life
because of the
power needed to run the screen backlight. I don't see that being a
problem for Web farms.
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Spike Jones wrote:
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> "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
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