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Originally Posted by woj
Cost of cpu power, storage, etc is going down though, so each year more and more bandwidth can be pushed from the same data center... now a days 1gbit can be pushed from a single server, wasn't long ago when you needed pretty decent server to do 100mbit, or no?
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Yes, you are correct that hardware costs are going down but as they go down the associated costs are going up. For example, in the same 2U of space we can now store more content and push more bandwidth than ever before. HOWEVER, the power supplies and CPUs are taking more power and producing more heat than ever before to achieve that goal. So now a DC needs bigger generators, bigger switch gear, bigger UPS, bigger HVAC, bigger everything. At the same time power costs themselves are going up. Just a few years ago I was paying $.04/kwh for power...now I pay almost $.09....power costs have more than doubled! In addition, Obama is proposing higher taxes on power consumption especially those power companies that mainly produce power from Coal so we are expecting those costs to go up dramatically by 2010.
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