The cow-powered data center

I think the centralisation of computer power in huge data centres has great opportunities to cut ineffiencient and wasteful power consumption, therefore I applaud this.

Sadly, it looks like we will consume a lot of energy in the data centres as well as running a, say, Core Duo computer at home. Maybe true thin clients will take off some day so we can harbour the advantages of centralised computing power.

This idea might work well in Ireland since IIRC we have more cows than people. We also have a number of large data centers here and plentiful incoming bandwidth.