Dorks And Losers

Michael Arring­ton wrote about how Face­book just bor­rowed $100 mil­lion to buy 50,000 new servers. He uses Google and Microsoft as comparisons.

“Com­pare that to Google, which oper­ates at least a mil­lion servers (and is adding 500,000 per year, says Busi­ness Week), and Microsoft, which is adding 200,000 servers per year.”

If Google adds 500k servers a year, how could the com­pany pos­si­bly only still be oper­at­ing only a 1M of them? I’m also reminded of an old arti­cle that I read about Google (which was when I was amazed by the then-infant com­pany) bought old thou­sands of old servers at cheap prices instead of buy­ing newer ones. I don’t think they’re doing that any­more, espe­cially with energy prices sky­rock­et­ing. I think it pays to be more effi­cient.
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Steve Kreuscher wants to change his name to “In God We Trust.“
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Here’s a cool arti­cle on the effects of min­ing and pol­lu­tion on Picher, Okla­homa. In a few years, it will be a town no longer.

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