www.opencompute.org

Facebook's datacenter and server design has been open sourced. They use the waste heat to bring outside air UP to datacenter cooling temperatures.

As far as I can tell you are dead wrong. Very few imports, almost all local hires.

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.

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 They have shared their server design, or at least an outdated one.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.

Sure, I don't have 4xFSAA enabled, but plays fine for me. Plus: Adobe Illustrator CS; Adobe InDesign CS; Adobe Photoshop CS; Adobe Reader 8; Autodesk Maya; Delicious Library.app; DivX Converter; Final Cut Pro HD.app; Freefall.app; Google Earth.app; Google SketchUp 6; iDVD.app; iPhoto.app; iTunes.app; Logic Pro.app; MATLAB701; Microsoft Office 2004; NoteBook.app; OmniGraffle.app; OmniOutliner.app; QuickTime Broadcaster.app; Remote Desktop.app; Reunion 9.app; Skype.app; Sound Studio; SoundSoap 2.app; Soundtrack.app; TeamSpeex.app; ToonBoomStudio; Transmit.app; Ventrilo.app; VideoGlide; Virtual PC.app; VLC.app... Plus many, many, MANY, others. All run without noticeable performance issues. And if I had more than the 2GB of RAM that's in it, it would be even better. As soon as it needs it, I'll spend the money. If you can see past the "gotta-get-a-newer-machine-because-somebody-out-there-has-something-newer-than-mine" mentality there's no end to the things you can do with an older machine. As soon as my Dual 2.5 ceases to meet my needs It will go into my museum of dead tech with the others. Until then, it will remain my core duty machine. Hell, not too long ago I won a $100 bet with a friend who didn't think I could get my Radius 81/110 (PowerMac 8100 Clone - circa 1995-1996) on the Internet in less than 30 minutes, from a boxed-up state. It took me 15 and that was only because I had to hunt to find a long-assed ethernet cable to reach from the garage to my office. Easy money. So if nothing else, win bets off the naysayers until you can afford a new MacPro tower. Nuff said.

What about the crabs, starfish, clams, and other slow or non-movers that inhabit the seafloor?

Poor things will be made into sushi!

You should colocate somewhere more secure, with people who know and love Apple hardware. www.forest.net

--chuck

Well, I didn't see any mention in the patent description about it being "the most efficient manner in which to effect this type of functionality", nor would it be the proper venue for it anyhow. Patents deal more in the "What" & "How", and less with the "Why" or conversely "Why Not". That, likely, would be an interogative best directed at the implementer of the feature, and not the lawyers. They tend to not involve themselves with that sort of thing.