hola eduardo, soy roberto (netk), de casualidad encontré este post y justamente tengo un amigo que lleva un par de meses en tokyo y le quedan otro par de meses por allá, le voy a dar el dato quizás sale algo, le pega al frontend pero también es un excelente sysadmin.. abrazo!
yes, but in the long term.. Chile is often used as guinea pig to do this sort of things, so before go all the way and start a huge data center in Brazil, it pays off to try it in a smaller scale somewhere else in the region and learn from it, Chile is perfect for that, it has the political stability, infrastructure and just enough population to have a decent amount of trained profesionals available..
Another point is, the data center will serve all LatAm not just Chile, so what really matters is where in the region you can get the fastests and more reliable bandwidth links to the US at the lowest price..
Data centers usually can be considered a long term type of thing and I´m pretty sure that Google is not going to build a "smallish" one, but I see your point regarding bandwidth and links.
You seem to imply that Brazil may be lacking political stability, infrastructure and/or trained professionals, but I don´t know to what extent this would be true. You have to consider that, aside from the economy, Brazil has up to 34% of all latin american population with the vast majority of it living on the eastern coast line. Placing a data center on the west coast does not add up.
There might be some other underlying reason why Google decided to settle in Chile. Maybe the cooler climate can reduce their operational costs.
this is exactly what I need to debug a problem of some users in some versions of windows with our html5 video player, very good idea that solves a painful problem, keep it up!
I always thought that a parallel-independent-underground network is inevitable and if it's achieved succesfully I think the ramifications could be huge, it could be the first step towards seriously thinking about the posibility of leaving Earth and start to colonize the space, if you can have a reliable network out of a DIY space program, I can't think why in 100 years they wouldn't start a colony outside to basically move further away from the rules of goverments on Earth.
I'm not an expert here, but it's pointless to make tracking sun panels that costs a lot more if the outcome wasn't that great, I bet tracking sunlight is still more efficient even after spending energy to move the panels, it makes no sense otherwise. The real benefit of this is that you get a cheap motionless panel that performs a lot better than the flat version, this is specially important in places like Africa where you need to be as efficient and cost effective as possible.
SolarFlower.org - the open source solar collector - has a non-electronic sun tracking system that I think might be more efficient than PV-powered tracking. See http://www.solarflower.org/faq.htm.
it makes a lot of sense, nature has been doing it for a lot of time :), I hope that other scientists elsewhere can also confirm that the improvements are so dramatic, I mean, having still/motionless cheap arrays that can perform 20%-50% better than the flat ones are great news!
