Electricity grid cannot cope with growing power demands

Mientras en España los medios de comunicación se hacen eco del apagón eléctrico sufrido por Cataluña, no hay repercusión de otros apagones en las antípodas. Así habla sobre el tema Charles Arthur en the Guardian: "I'm intrigued by the way everyone outside governments and power companies seem to assume that electricity supply will continue to grow according to demand." www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/27/comment.internet/print, comenting on the power outage that knocked a number of important websites, such as the blog hosts Six Apart, and Craigslist, Yelp, and Technorati offline - as well as 51,000 people in San Francisco. Scarcity means that servers location will become a geopolitical decision: "Google has invested huge amounts building server farms in South Colorado and in Oregon, where it can rely - for now - on hydroelectric power from the rivers nearby. (Microsoft has built a server farm in Washington State near Google's Oregon one. Imagine if it started corralling the water that Google needed to power its systems...)", Arthur adds.