{"id":3409,"date":"2010-08-16T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2010-08-16T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:04:55","slug":"cheap-land-abundant-power-and-accessible-fiber-optic-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/08\/cheap-land-abundant-power-and-accessible-fiber-optic-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;cheap land, abundant power, and accessible fiber optic lines&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3408\" title=\"the-dalles_google\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-dalles_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-dalles_google.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-dalles_google-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Google&#8217;s data center in The Dalles, Oregon; photographed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the_impression_that_i_get\/1321041609\/\">flickr user The Impression That I Get<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"..\/2010\/04\/a-preliminary-atlas-of-gizmo-landscapes\/\">A Preliminary Atlas of Gizmo Landscapes<\/a>, <em>mammoth <\/em>briefly described the Google data center in The Dalles; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedalleschronicle.com\/news\/2010\/08\/08-08-10-01.shtml\">an excellent recent article<\/a>, local <em>The Dalles Chronicle<\/em> reporter Theodoric Meyer investigates the relationship between Google and local public officials, the impact of the arrival of a second data center &#8212; for Facebook &#8212; in this rural Oregon town, and the surprising contrast between the willingness of the two internet giants to share information about these physical instantiations of <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/starting-from-zero\/\">the Invisible City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2010\/08\/how-data-centers-are-reshaping-rural-oregon\/61312\/\">Alexis Madrigal<\/a> at <\/em>The Atlantic<em>; via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ajblum\/status\/20892154018\">Andrew Blum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/10\/google-facebook-a-tale-of-two-data-centers\/\">commentary on Meyer&#8217;s article<\/a> at <\/em>Data Center Knowledge<em>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Google&#8217;s data center in The Dalles, Oregon; photographed by flickr user The Impression That I Get] In A Preliminary Atlas of Gizmo Landscapes, mammoth briefly described the Google data center in The Dalles; in an excellent recent article, local The Dalles Chronicle reporter Theodoric Meyer investigates the relationship between Google and local public officials, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,3],"tags":[291,441,858],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-infrastructure","category-landscape","tag-internet","tag-invisible-cities","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}