An out of left field idea - a server farm

I read the Good Morning Silicon Valley blog. Not as much as I once did but its tone about the high tech business makes for a good read. So when I read And we’ll sell the heat back to the good citizens of Irkutsk I am thinking "Well, why not Indiana"? This paragraph succinctly captures the pros and the cons but, still, we do have unused former factory space....:

"As Nick Carr notes, this is all part of Redmond’s effort to catch up with Google’s ever-growing infrastructure. Microsoft has server farms already under construction in Quincy, Washington, and San Antonio, Texas, and plans a $500 million center in Dublin, while Google has announced new centers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Iowa, and the Netherlands. Getting picked for one of these impressive investments might sound like a real civic prize, but as Carr notes, these are not the factories or offices of old: “If local communities are hoping these giant centers will create a lot of new jobs, they’ll probably be disappointed. Microsoft has revealed that the Chicago facility, which may be the biggest data center on earth when it’s completed next year, will employ a grand total of between 35 and 50 people.”"