Cold economics may stack up for the Datagrid venture
Demand for cloud computing capacity has been rising steadily around the world, bringing locations for data centres that wouldn’t have appealed five or 10 years ago into play. Operators are looking for five things; cheap and ideally renewable power, proximity to large numbers of computer users, reliable internet connectivity, political stability, and ideally cheap land to build on. Getty Images Datagrid would be good for the global environment if it displaced data centres in Australia, but the employment opportunities it might generate may need to be kept in perspective (file photo). A co...
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