The Secret Behind Google's Power (Bill)
from the not-that-power... dept
And, by “power,” we mean electrical power. Turns out that those thousands upon thousands of machines Google has running eat up a ton of electrical power, and one of the company’s challenges has been to make their use of electricity more efficient. Apparently, turning the machines off at night isn’t an option…
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Google Electricity
Google is working on an Internet based, web-enabled cold fusion application that will power all of their internal electricity needs. Excess capacity will be delivered to consumers in exchange for viewing targeted advertisements based upon power consumption (ie: use your radio, you’ll get music ads; use an electric weed trimmer, get an ad for Better Homes & Gardens, use an electric suction pump, get an ad for penis enlargement….)
Re: Google Electricity
Has cold fusion even been a proven theory yet?
If not, it won’t supprise me if google gets it to work.
Re: Re: Google Electricity
Sure but it’s already patented and sold by Macromedia. LOL!
Re: Re: Google Electricity
cold fusion is a web development language. he wasn’t referring to the theoretical technology based on nuclear fission.
Re: Re: Re: Google Electricity
I think Google engineers would be insulted that anyone thinks they use ColdFusion for any app development. What next, Picasa is written using Visual Basic – LOL
Re: Google Electricity
are you serious? what’s next every American citizen regardless of age gets a federally employed babysitter? this is seriously an invasion of privacy!
lol
3 google
That explains it
My boss was at the googleplex last week, and he came back flumoxed at why Serge and co. spent three hours doing a presentation to mainly business partners on solar and wind power.
Another mystery solved.
The Seti at Home model
Google is working on a Seti-like project. When your computer’s power-saving stuff kicks in (i.e. monitor turns off), your computer puts the saved power into special power-packets which go to Google.
Re: The Seti at Home model
Or maybe google plans on sucking power from any source availble and storing them into “Energon Cubes” which make it easy to transport large amounts of energy to their sever room
Off peak electricity
Maybe they should use off-peak electricity (In UK between 1am and 7am) with data centres in different time zones they could have continous service.