On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> said: >> the colo provider may not want to 'waste' electricity/cooling on a >> vending machine... > > A plain (non-drink) machine draws a few watts. I don't think rack > screws and patch cables need to be refrigerated; if they can't spare a > few watts for a vending machine, then you probably can't install > anything new there anyway.
You know, I don't think the reason this doesn't happen is a technological one.
There are a bunch of us who've been pushing this idea to DC and colo providers
for well upwards of fifteen years now, and I don't know of anyone who's
actually done it. The problem is supply, not demand. Combining someone who's
willing to service vending machines for a living with someone who knows what we
need the vending machines stocked with is the sticking point, since the market
is too small to separate those roles, I think. At least to bootstrap. Of
course, if the economy continues downward, maybe there will be more clueful
people who figure stocking vending machines is better than no work at all.
-Bill
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