Well, the concept revolves around the idea that the basic shell or infrastructure should provide the bare necessities: power, networking, management, a high-speed bus, cooling, and storage.

这个概念围绕一个理念，即基本外壳或基础架构应该提供一些基本需求：电源、联网、管理、一条高速总线、冷却设备、以及存储器。

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Utilities hope that other uses for power line networking could help subsidize Internet service.

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Google has about 900, 000 servers, so Facebook needs 27, 000 additional servers (plus power and networking infrastructure) for no obvious financial return.

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Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.

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