It's actually really sad... Google has built an innovative platform for distributed computing, that solves quite a few problems, vastly superior to the state of the art in distributed computing, but they basically keep the filesystem and clustering implementations completely to themselves, it would seem.

And for aesthetic reasons, they need to be placed in fairly remote locations away from urban centers, which reduces efficiency.

Man, I hear you. I had a girl sending me half-nude pics of her, and talk dirty via ICQ, because she deliberately wanted to get my dick hard. And then when she succeeded, my boss came in, and asked me to stand up and come with him.

The link is really light on the math. In most systems that obey similar behavior, demand does increase, but the increase in demand does not completely erase the benefit of the increase in efficiency. In this case it can't completely erase the benefit, because if it did the end result would be a net increase in the price - and that was the original basis for the argument, that the drop in price would spur consumption. So the increase in demand has to fall short of that point.