{"id":424,"date":"2006-06-14T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=424"},"modified":"2006-06-14T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T06:42:27","slug":"the_new_powerpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"The new powerplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone still doubting that computing is becoming a utility, check out this New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/14\/technology\/14search.html\">report<\/a> on the huge new &#8220;powerplant&#8221; Google is quietly constructing near the Columbia River on the Oregon-Washington border. The massive complex includes &#8220;a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky.&#8221; Both Microsoft and Yahoo are also building new computing powerplants nearby, drawn by the area&#8217;s cheap electricity and good network connections. What we&#8217;re seeing is a shift in the pattern of capital investment into information technology &#8211; away from individual users toward central utilities. It&#8217;s a shift that will play out slowly over the course of many years, as the new utilities expand their capacity and capabilities, and that will reshape the entire IT business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone still doubting that computing is becoming a utility, check out this New York Times report on the huge new &#8220;powerplant&#8221; Google is quietly constructing near the Columbia River on the Oregon-Washington border. The massive complex includes &#8220;a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}