Power Requirements for a Silicon Valley Tech Company: The Megawatt Challenge
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Summary
The article describes a humorous anecdote about a computer company in Palo Alto that uses about a megawatt of electricity. To deliver this power, the building requires a large transformer, which is humorously compared to a "mother of all grease fires" in the subject line. The content appears to be a forwarded email from 1994 discussing the electrical infrastructure needs of a tech company in Silicon Valley, with a focus on the practical challenges of power delivery to office buildings.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI work in the very center of the city of Palo Alto, in a nice office building.
We are a computer company, and so our building ends up needing a lot of electricity. We use about a megawatt (1 million watts).
In order to deliver a million watts of electricity to an office building, you need a very larg
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