about the blogger posting/commenting latency...
It would be an understatement to say "Perhaps you've noticed that it takes awhile to post or comment using Blogger." But hey, I said it anyway. The
Blogger status page has been updated with some information, and
Blogger Buzz provided more info the other day: they need more electricity. The problem is not one of servers and their ability via processors and RAM to handle high loads, it's that there isn't enough
actual power going to the server farm! See:
New machines are not an issue because here at Google we can add them quite smoothly as needed. The real issue is power—actual electricity, if you can believe it. So now we're adding more power in addition to more machines.
Phil Ringnalda posted
some musings about the situation, tying it in to
Google's plans for a facility in Oregon. Not just anywhere in Oregon, but The Dalles, which is home to The Dalles Dam, which is "a 1.8 million kilowatt generating monster."
Basically, Google needs so much power that they're placing a data center NEXT TO A DAM. That's a lotta
meatballspower.
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