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Mark Mills - The Cloud Revolution

A Book with Legs

CHAPTER

The Limits of Scale Matter

The nature of engineers is not to try to figure out by a paper or power point where the limit of scales matter. As you make them too big, it takes away the rest of the utility function. A data center that gobbles 100 megawatts, which is what the big ones do now, has a location challenge. Once you put a few of them in a place, you can't actually power it.

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