> Unfortunately, the baseline assumption isn't correct. To quibble with that quibble, though the steel mills thing is in the title, I wouldn't call it a "basel

> Unfortunately, the baseline assumption isn't correct. To quibble with that quibble, though the steel mills thing is in the title, I wouldn't call it a "baseline assumption" of the longer discussion in the post: the post talks about how power affects datacenter costs, with one sentence at the end mentioning steel mills. He links the "steel mills" phrase to a page on a Microsoft datacenter in Quincy, WA. I don't know much about the history of that area, but I did read that another Microsoft datacenter was built in The Dalles, OR, which had very cheap power and historically was home to aluminum manufacturers that needed a lot of power for the electrolytic process involved: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?ei=&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?e... mentions the datacenter and that aluminum smelters were once in the area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting talks more about the process and how it takes "prodigious amounts of electricity"