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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Mine was just a very rough guess based on my knowledge of how US businesses work.
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Fair enough.
I've worked in small and mid-sized data centers (nobody nearly as big as Amazon, though). Electricity for power and cooling is the largest continuing expense a data center of any size faces. I have no doubt that Amazon gets good rates on their power bills, but don't forget that Amazon doesn't get nearly the 30% that Apple takes from each sale.