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Mississippi ?
Okay, not that I'm questioning this .... okay, yes I am.

The Mississippi River doesn't consume electricity.

Now, maybe the author meant "more electricity than is currently generated by
hydro-electric plants ON the Mississippi".

That's fine then. I didn't know there were ANY Hydro plants on the Big Muddy.


As for the rest of the math, I suspect the numbers combine all the costs of air
conditioning in the computer rooms as well as the power used in the server
closets.

Computers themselves don't use much power, but cooling definitely does.
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Mississippi ?  Jkirk3279 | 02/14/07
The State !  Jkirk3279 | 02/14/07
I didn't.  James T. Kirk | 02/15/07
The strory meant Miss Issippi  Prognosticator | 02/15/07
Mississippi  TVEagle | 02/15/07
Servers do suck a lot of power  Leria | 02/15/07
Servers definitely suck a lot of power  gigglypuff | 02/15/07
Right, we keep adding features to the Desktop OSes instead of reducing  DonnieBoy | 02/15/07
Replacing hard drives with Flash ROM is a start...  HypnoToad72 | 02/16/07
If you consider the options, we are actually SAVING a lot of enerty.  DonnieBoy | 02/15/07
Stupid paradigm  frgough | 02/15/07
what ???? more abuntant ???  redtrain65 | 02/15/07
Conservation is likely to return more  Prognosticator | 02/15/07
Well for starters  Linux User 147560 | 02/15/07
Count me in.  redtrain65 | 02/15/07
Balanced approach  CitizenW | 02/15/07
Another question, how much energy to all of the desktop computers connected  DonnieBoy | 02/15/07
Totally agree on the desktop question  yyuko@... | 02/15/07
sounds good to me !  redtrain65 | 02/15/07
An Idea worth considering  GuidingLight | 02/16/07
Except....  CitizenW | 02/15/07
WOL?  yyuko@... | 02/15/07
There is no known number and to put one out there is just a guess.  Been_Done_Before | 02/15/07
What's wrong with statistical analysis?  yyuko@... | 02/15/07

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