Because of the cheap electricity that flows alongside the Columbia River, server farms starting popping up next to actual farms in the agricultural regions of eastern Washington and Oregon back in 2006. But that doesn't mean techies with salaries that can afford a brand new McMansion will be flooding into towns like Quincy, Washington — where Grant County's publicly owned power authority offered companies like Microsoft and Yahoo rock-bottom electricity prices and developers built estates like "Serenata" on spec.