Its galloping GDP growth, 8.8% in both 2003 and 2004, owes a lot to high soyabean prices and the use of capacity left idle by the economic collapse in 2001-02.
According to our customers and most analysts, private data centres are using as little as 20 per cent of their server capacity, but even at idle these servers consume 60-70 per cent of their power.
Unfortunately for their hypothesis, not only are we are at the end of a thirty-year period of deregulation and falling taxes, but the private sector already has plenty of idle workers and capacity.