Dugeo has looked into using co-lo data centres, but none of them are interested in 30KW racks. Cloud services like Amazon, meanwhile, have high data transfer charges and hard data storage limits. "We tried hard to find a bureau service," says MD Dr Lamont. "The last thing we need is to own machines. But you just can’t do it. You just can’t afford them — the price point of bureaus is crazy, I remember getting a quote from a mob that offered 440 CPUs, a big cluster at that time, we could hire that for two months or buy or install our own."