The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
editor Chris Sturr and I were planning a tag-team response to the horrible jobs numbers yesterday, but beers and dinner intervened, so I'm going to leave commentary in the capable hands of the
FTLex columnist. All the depressing details are covered there.
Well, except maybe this....
See you in the dole queue,
Larry Peterson
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