Google power

[ctdctd]

My FF browser tab hangs when trying to open that PDF document. Is it just me? I appear to be able to open other PDF pages ok. Works ok in IE though.

Just you - opens in FF 3.5.9 fine here

 

[TimberWolf]

Just you - opens in FF 3.5.9 fine here

3.6.3 here.

 

[Ravello]

I'm sure I remember reading an article a couple of years ago around the fact that Google are actually expert at keeping their 'leccy bills down... The article focussed on the fact that each individual server had it's own onboard cooling which removed the necessity for placing them in a temperature-controlled server room.

I'll see if I can find it...

 

[TimberWolf]

An old article about Google and the possibility of their employing solid state drives, which may have come to nothing

Sources have told Digitimes that Google plans to test out SSD storage in an effort to lower power consumption at its vast data centers. The ad broker-cum-search engine will turn to Intel for the SSD gear.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/13/intel_google_ssd/

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Are they going to move to Iceland into those geothermal powered server farms I read about then? CO2 friendly power there.