[TriLUG] A rare look inside a Google Datacenter

[Robert Dale]

Gmail is ad-supported. I wouldn't call that giving it away. And even
if it weren't, I would say yes, with $9 Billion in profit last year,
they could afford to give it away.


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Sterling
<sterling.daniel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:
>> I liked the pretty pictures in Wired, but when I read that Google gives away Gmail for free because they're just so darn energy efficient, I laughed and closed the tab.
>
> It's a factor, no?
>
> How much less does Google pay for power, cooling and space because of
> their specialty designs? If it's a significant amount, they can afford
> many more boxes with which to do things like gmail. If they didn't
> bother saving that money, would they have enough for gmail anyway?
>
> -- Dan
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Robert Dale