Not sure you want to be counting on diesel fuel getting to Summit, Grand, or Eagle if the power goes out 😉

I'm not sure we want to decentralize data centers too much, heck, I still see plenty of people struggling with local clusters, much less geographical ones. That being said, VMWare is working hard on vMotion working across data centers, assuming you have the bandwidth.

The idea of putting data centers, or a tech business in smaller community makes some sense to me. Lower costs, and you might attract a lot of people that want to live in a different place. Chances are you need a decent population in the first place, maybe even a relatively high tech one. I could see somewhere like Golden building data centers, it's close to the mountains, but not in them, perhaps cheaper to live in than other places.

There have been a quite a few software companies growing near universities. It would be great to see some of those smaller schools benefit from a trend like this.