On Oct 15, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> New marketing strategy? > > the article noted it's "a tiny gesture".
Yeah a small fraction of total computing power. At 4.4 cents a kilowatt hour, a huge price, they pay for 720 kilowatt: 4.4 * 720 = 31.68 euro an hour. Now if they move some of their old junk to iceland, that gives an energy price of roughly quarter of a mllion euro a year. So BMW has to sell half a dozen cars there extra to break even. That's still more than i thought they'd invest, yet it's in line with the max i said the datacenter would be able to handle. Maybe with some subsidy they get from Iceland government they can reduce it to 1 or 2 cars they have to sell extra in Iceland to break even. The reduction in CO2 i disagree with, as normally spoken old junk wouldn't eat power at all, so it delivers 0 output of CO2 then. Vincent > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
