I can tell you that my home residential rate is just under 6 cents (after taxes) in eastern Washington and that you are in the ballpark with your large commercial customer numbers (irrigators get 2.5 cent rates). We work with another PUD in the area on data center type apps and find the pricing to be amazing when compared to other areas. There is also access to large amounts of water (for evaporative cooling as an example) in a lot of areas due to the ability to transfer water rights from agriculture to commercial use. If anybody really wants more info, email privately. John :) -------------------------------------------- John van Oppen PocketiNet Communications Technical Operations "Guter Rat ist teuer." --Unbekannt Main: + 1 (509) 526 - 5026 Direct: +1 (509) 593 - 4707 -------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: chuck goolsbee [mailto:chucklist@forest.net] Gesendet: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:48 AM An: nanog@merit.edu Betreff: Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

I wonder just how much power it takes to cool 450,000 servers.

I've heard mumbles that the per kWh rates from Bonneville in the locations along the Columbia are in the sub-4¢ range. Grant county is seeing a huge fiber building boom as a result. It will be more wired up than King county soon. Woody was here last night and remarked (feel free to correct me if I misquote you Bill) that it was funny that nowadays "network geeks were more interested in kilowatts than kilobits" --chuck (in Seattle)