Google has leased another 57,000 square feet of space at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of the most wired carrier hotel properties in New York. That's in addition to the 270,000 square feet the company leased in 2005.
Cloud technologists are intrigued by the potential applications for commodity-style trading of compute capacity, and have begun discussing how such an exchange might work. Key ingredients: the right framework and a trusted market maker.