Harpers magazine has published a blueprint of Google’s new data center at The Dalles, Oregon where they will be tapping into some of the cheapest electricity in North America.
Google is building two computing centers, top and left, each the size of a football field, in The Dalles, Ore.
Although the plans show three 68,680-square-foot storage buildings,
only two of the buildings have been constructed so far. Based on a
projected industry standard of 500 watts per square foot, the Dalles
plant can be expected to use 103 megawatts of electricity. Google’s
server farm represents a new phase in the transformation of the
Columbia River over the past half-century. Across the street from the
Google data center is an example the last generation of high energy
consumers; Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask.com are also planning data centers
on the Columbia River."
Via Harpers Magazine
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