No, it's actually the power plug of Google's new Oregon data center. Built at the banks of Columbia River it is strategically located near cheap hydroelectric power. The upcoming cloud is changing the way we have to think of IT power consumption.
Large server farms - as the ones run by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft - draw an increasing amount of electricity to fulfill our search and hosted application needs; nothing a simple 110/ 230 V socket could provide.
But wait a minute. Shouldn't our private electricity bills go down as a result? No more optical drives, no more harddisks, slimmer laptops to serve a modified set of cloud computing habits? Not yet.
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