In considering the idea of Google’s floating data centres, I realised that there may be a natural (pun. intended.) and compelling reason to integrate our own energy consumption patterns with the energy distribution systems present in the biosphere. Gaia. Entropy. Systemic. Complexity. Shiva dances. Button-pressing concepts.
Gaia in Her aspect of coolant bath
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Category: Blue blue sky · Technology · petabyte age
The Data Deluge
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
A recent article by Wired’s Chris Anderson, entitled the “End of Theory”, has sparked more than one refutation in the blogosphere. Even though the article is almost certainly somewhat breathless in its announcement of the end of the scientific method, it served to bring a very important fact to the attention of a wide audience. [...]
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