Cloud computing arms race
It's always interesting to see how much companies are spending on the race to enable cloud computing. The Economist, in its latest edition, reports on the race to build out data centers and its implications on the enviornment. Some highlights:
- Google has 36 data centers with about 1m servers
- America alone has about 7000 data centers
- Microsoft is adding 20,000 servers a month to its data centers
More here.
