[electricblue]

$77 million doesn't sound like that much for a site the size of Wikipedia

[VOYD]

considering it's "community written" content - otherwise known as "free", that seems like a high price to run a server farm.

[juliangoldsmith]

As the article says, it's about 3 times what it takes to run the site for a year.

[sparkzilla]

After you count the inflated headcount, yes. If it ran on a reasonable budget of $10 million it would be able to run for many years even on existing reserves.