Distributing weather forecasts
Of course, utilities - certainly electricity and gas, and increasingly roads and rail - aren’t free. But then again, it costs money to generate and distribute electricity and gas, or build roads and rail. By contrast, the cost of running online distribution is falling all the time; the amount of data that the Met Office distributes every day - a few gigabytes, it told the report’s authors - would cost a few pounds per day to distribute if held on Amazon’s S3 system. That’s pretty cheap. |