Re: [tlug] OT - Shutdown day

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 17/04/2008, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Josh Glover writes:
>
>   >  If people see that, they may push their manufacturers for greener
>   > PCs, and then we all win.
>
> I'm sure that Uncle Jeff and the guys at Google, Yahoo!, and Akamai
>  are all well-aware of the cost of running computers.

Yes, and Google at least has done a lot to lower the power consumption
of their data centres, going so far as to design their own power
supply:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/256/
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000868.html

>  Last I heard 3%
>  of the electricity in the Great State of California was going for care
>  and feeding of computers; that's a lot of $$$.

YOWSA!

-- 
Cheers,
Josh