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Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?
by gtsteve 10y ago
Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?
- fulafel 10y agoIt's near rich SV customers, so maybe customer value due to latency?
- ccannon 10y agoOur Amazon rep tells us it's all about the cost of electricity.
- late2part 10y ago11c/kWh in bay area, 6c/kWh in Oregon and Nevada. Old data here but salient: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-price-of-electricity-in-your-state http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-p...