New Microsoft data center powers Web services push

Microsoft's new data center in Quincy, Wash., is its largest "server farm" to date--big enough to house seven soccer fields.

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[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Big balls, one pyrimid, no brains (S.old.S),

Microsoft has built a sutup to house future demand that all works from one point which nomatter how big will be overloaded.
Reall microsoft would have been wiser to have been patent and worked with partnering and and local eco projects in a sparse array but they weren't brave enough.
Obviously what local grid look like along internet 2 infastructure is to great an unknown at the moment hey over 1 million of you are so worried about losing what you've got that you'd would even cripple lane systems that could allow for such grids instead of dealing with problems really well when they arise.
To me this whole stupidy of poor logistics,ethics and fear of law and commerce stems from somthing a little too oversized for the current evolved population.
Oh yes the great US of A and whats worse is you think Us Eero dudes would look better in a state system too so we can act from faer of to big a system to regulate properly "year thanks".
Never teach a five year old politics/hero worship full stop thats my advice.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Prediction:- How a world of gigalomaniacs crashed the internet.

If just one man was power hungry the world be pretty sain. You see we would all adapt around his madness and find ourseves an adaptive role.
Unfortunitly most of us are power hungry in our own way. Unfortunitly to make matters worse none of us understand very well the others reason for wanting all this power nor do we recognise them as the all powerful.
When we do actually gain some responsability in life we don't even realise other power hungry guys exsist or will exsist after we've taken over the world.
This is called healthy compitition. Anyway this leads us to the deception that the most efficient way to power everything is from one central point to maintain our power.
Unfortunitly Although this works well for running broadcast only mind control cia derived TV setups it dosent do a lot of good for a hitech computerized telecommunications infastructure or copyright management in relation to distribution,buffering and remixing either.
In fact this power hungry effect often leads us (craap from rocks) to believe we invented things and that everything we do is completly original (hey Steve Jobs). So we argue over rediculas issues fighting over difference (so called interlectual property). Unfortunetly the only thing sensible about interlectual property rights is that they can help fund progress in areas of interest due to interested groups getting payed.
This however does nothing to stop that waiting to buffer delay you get or any capacity problems you may have noticed, does it.
So let consider for a moment instead of a one company can supply everyone with a standard service prepossal, that instead we live in a world full of gigalomaniacs that want a five Gb connection last year so that they can play 4d packman man on the lastest blue gene setup and can't understand why mores law wasn't abolished years ago.
Now when you consider that this is partly your public, might it be sensible for us to wake up to each other and work out somthing more effective of a de-centralised form that looks more philosophically like a wierd random wave of desire and thoughts seeking some sort of transformation alliance as opposed to a pyrimid to which we all think we're on top of.

Yep i call out to you all to rethink your ego and god complexes before the internet hits overload.

[Kings X Rocks!]

Gigalomaniacs - smaller than Terralomaniacs

"You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the sighpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!"

[Ted Miller]

O boy! This is great!!

Will it run as good as Vista?

[wbenton]

What to expect...

Expect to see a power brownout for most of the cities surrounding the Quincy facility.

Once power stabalizes, expect traffic in the North Western part of the US to slow down to a crawl.

Finally, expect the number of zombies and spam mail to increase 7000 times what it is today once hackers get their hands on Microsoft's new playing field!

Walt

[Commander_Spock]

GARBAGE, BIO-FUELS, SOLAR POWER IN (...

... that "The Quincy facility will consume up to 48 megawatts of electricity--enough to power 40,000 homes.") WILL THERE BE GARBAGE OUT of server farms such as these that some companies around the world are building!!!

[Commander_Spock]

Wanna know...

... why the question as to whether this will be "Garbage In or/and Garbage Out" it may be simply this the Microsoft Corporation is yet to have its Word Processing Standards (OFFICE XML) approved by the ISO - the question is when? Secondly, at the rate at which the ISO processes go the world may be far away before there is an ISO approved "SpreadSheet" Standards and yet decision-making would be expected from "DATA FORMATS" that are not ISO standardized. So, to what/whose standards are current and future (near term) "DATA" being processed at these Data Centers confirm?

[Commander_Spock]

">>>Microsoft has a system for finding...

... potential data center sites. It takes 31 factors into account such as access to cheap, renewable electricity and fiber optic connectivity before coming up with a handful of locations.

"I kind of view it as a treasure map," Mike Manos, Microsoft's director of data centers, said in an interview.<<<"; So, what about all the talk of Data Transmission Over Power Lines; besides, what guarantee (redundancy power and data) does my company have in event of natural disasters... that our access to company data will be assured. We may as well enter into agreement with the INTELSAT folks for their systems to kick in should these (natural disasters) occur!