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The future AWS is driving towards is where they are the power generation company that nobody has onsite either (except for very rare circumstances). You might
by count 12y ago
The future AWS is driving towards is where they are the power generation company that nobody has onsite either (except for very rare circumstances).
You might keep some temporary capacity / backups locally, but you'll depend on the utility to be there for the vast majority of things.
The market will see if that's the future or not...
- ghaff 12y agoThat's the "Big Switch" theory. It's one possible future although my sense is that there's considerable skepticism about it from both the perspective of where the economical scale points sit and with respect to governance/control.
- jasonlotito 12y ago> The future AWS is driving towards is where they are the power generation company that nobody has onsite eithe Don't you mean "a power generation company." I take it you live some place that does not give you choice.
- count 12y agoYou don't chose who provides the electrons coming over your poles in the VAST Majority of locations (some folks run substations to multiple grids, but even then, are talking to the whole other grid, not a single power company). Deregulated power is about where you send your bill, not who's producing the electrons.