Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.
James Glanz has an excellent piece in the Sunday New York Times and continuing today on how much power is consumed by data centers in the U.S. To provide fast response time, they operate near full capacity much of the time, and waste up to 90 percent of their energy consumption.