If you, like me, clicked thru from Doc Searls to Markoff’s article on ServerLand, Google’s theme park on the Columbia River, and if you found it interesting, then you will want to read McD’s cogent if speculative ramble around the world of distributed iron this morning.
Disintermediate.
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Doug Alder 06.15.06 at 7:40
What Google also has that MS doesn’t is dark fiber all over the western hemisphere and rapidly moving ino the eastern one as well with self contained data centers in shipping containers parked at strategic points along that fiber.
Frank Paynter 06.15.06 at 8:52
Wow. That’s better than hydroponics, which is the only other stationary use for the shipping container that just leaps to mind… grow-lights, rich dirt and enough seedlings and you can eat those tomatoes all year round.