You don't need to build a whole data center to get wholesale pricing on power and bandwidth. To me this reads like Groupon has thrown the towel and has deemed i

You don't need to build a whole data center to get wholesale pricing on power and bandwidth. To me this reads like Groupon has thrown the towel and has deemed it OK to throw more hardware at the problem. Perhaps they've come to the conclusion that buying their way out of the suboptimal backend system is much more cost effective than hiring very capable people. Regards