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The point about Google having a datacenter in Oregon has nothing to do with mismanagement in California and everything to do with the availability of cheap, gre

• anamax 18y ago
  > mismanagement in California and everything to do with the availability of cheap, green, hydro power in the Pacific Northwest. What makes you think that mismanagement of CA has nothing to do with the cost of power in CA and the availability of "green hydro power"? (CA occasionally tries to tear down power damns and has stalled construction of one of a major one, somewhere around Folsom, for over 20 years.)
  • tjmc 18y ago
    That's a fair point, but the other datacentre attracting factor I should have mentioned is the presence of surplus optical fibre bandwidth on the Oregon/Washington border: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html
  • davidw 18y ago
    Because the Columbia river, and specifically, the Columbia Gorge are probably far more suited for power generation than pretty much anywhere else in the country? You have the 4th largest river in the country very near to its outlet going through a deep gorge in a mountain range. It's pretty hard to beat that. The PNW, in general, has a lot more water than California does (something all too obvious to anyone who has ever spent a winter in western Oregon or Washington). Of course, all those dams have done their part to kill off the salmon runs, and that industry, but that's another story. Anyway, this article is politics, though, as can be seen by the resulting discussion, so I went ahead and flagged it.
• sown 18y ago
  It's also probably has something to do with google's overall architecture for parallelism