Industrial rates in the Columbia Basin (read Oregon & Washington states) are LESS than 2 per kW/hr. This is why the pacific northwest is the prime location for datacenters in the USA.

"The Prineville FB data center employs 35 people, but the tech jobs were all filled out of area"

Wrong, and wrong again. Just because you live nearby doesn't mean you have a clue what is going on inside. More than half the full-time tech jobs have been filled locally.

Additionally the site has been under construction for over a year and a half employing hundreds of people, both locally and from all over the Pacific Northwest. All those folks have been spending their money in Crook County, hotels, restaurants, bars, etc. Every day for the past 18 months. I've seen Central Oregon before this project began, and since - the economic benefits have been palpable and positive.

You are wrong. They will, and they do.

Datacenter work is the "blue collar" end of the IT spectrum. With the right toolset in place, anyone can be trained to do it.

Except for the fact that USB displays suck for speed, drivers, and usability across platforms, while Thunderbolt can go right to HDMI without issue?

I agree, it'll be hard to pry the CLI from my cold, dead fingers.

But I'm always game to try out something that rethinks what I'm doing. Gnome 3 became a permanent fixture that way.. :)

I think it's neat, and I don't own any Apple machines anymore. It's a neat perspective, and something I'd like to try out, though I wouldn't necessarily see it usable for day to day activities.

Then again, trollin' is fun, I suppose.

If you read carefully, it runs on WebKit, but uses OS X to show it off. They've already got it working in a browser, some enterprising soul will just need to generate a small WebKit component to run it on another OS.

The kind of person that loves-vim-long-time is probably not looking for a graphic-enhanced shell, either.

There are other operating systems beyond Windows and OS X. Linux is one of many with a miniscule desktop market share. FreeBSD is another contender, and to drop support completely is short sighted with little benefit. Interface with abstractions, maybe create the Linux interface to that abstraction, and allow others to interface to those abstractions. Two birds, one stone.

Purely decorative. They are not "security barriers" they are just decorative concrete slabs.

Google has never made their *datacenter* designs, or even their locations public. They have shared their server design, or at least an outdated one.

From what I've heard from Ex-Googlers they never actually deployed the container concept beyond one half, of one of their many, many facilities.

Here's me, wishing I had mod points.

You share a credit rating?

a) It's Perl, not PERL
b) Given the code I've been slogging through the last few years, it seems Perl is no more "write only" than PHP, Java, or C.

I would be curious why someone would combine a lack of local privileges with the inability to remotely administer those workstations.