| By Maureen O'Gara | Article Rating: |
|
| October 15, 2008 11:00 AM EDT | Reads: |
2,224 |
In a week of ludicrously large numbers beyond a normal human being's comprehension of what it will cost to barely survive the current economic catastrophe Google announced that - by its calculations - it will take $4.4 trillion to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuel by 88% by 2030 (and that's only 38% in cars).
While the world waited for the US Senate to vote on a patchwork rescue measure to save the global economy, Google Wednesday unveiled its "Clean Energy 2030" plan, which would substitute wind (heaven help the birds), nuclear and geothermic (a particular pet of Google's) for coal and oil to save an estimated $1 trillion between now and 2030.
Google has recently invested $45 million in alternate energy start-ups and already claims that it has identified $5 million in so-called building energy savings over two-and-a-half years. It also says its massive data centers are the "most efficient in the world," using only a fifth the power required by conventional facilities.
Google is supposed to average a Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) rating of 1.21 across six data centers and another that's close to a "perfect" 1.0 score. A typical data center has a PUE of at least 2.0.
Google says we spend more energy on a Google search than Google does responding.
The Green Grid pushes PUE as a standard.
New efficiency servers and PCs could reportedly cut energy consumption 10%-20% by 2010.
Anyway, Google's bigger "save the world" plan was written as a supposed talking point, and with a view to the next administration in Washington, by Jeffery Greenblatt of Google's non-profit Google.org.
Google has partnered with General Electric to lobby Washington on alternate energy.
Published October 15, 2008 Reads 2,224
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
More Stories By Maureen O'Gara
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
- The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing
- SYS-CON.TV: Cloud Computing Expo Power Panel
- Why IBM’s Server Chief Got Busted
- SOA World Power Panel on SYS-CON.TV
- 1st Annual GovIT Expo: Letter from the Technical Chair
- Deputy CIO of the CIA to Keynote 1st Annual GovIT Expo
- Stock in Focus: Dragon Capital
- 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics
- CIA was Headed to an Enterprise Cloud All Along: Jill Tummler Singer
- Cloud Computing Expo: Exclusive Q&A with Yahoo! SVP Cloud Computing
- The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing
- SOA in the Cloud - Monitoring and Management for Reliability
- How to Diagnose Java Resource Starvation
- SYS-CON.TV: Cloud Computing Expo Power Panel
- Software AG Named "Gold Sponsor" of SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East
- Why IBM’s Server Chief Got Busted
- IBM & Cloud Computing: How "SOA in the Cloud" Can Produce Real Change
- SYS-CON's Cloud Expo Adds Two New Tracks
- SOA World Power Panel on SYS-CON.TV
- 1st Annual GovIT Expo: Letter from the Technical Chair
- The i-Technology Right Stuff
- Who Are The All-Time Heroes of i-Technology?
- Get the Message
- Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?
- Success, Arrogance, Rise and Fall
- i-Technology Viewpoint: Is Web 2.0 the Global SOA?
- i-Technology Viewpoint: Thinking Outside the VC Box
- ESB Myth Busters: 10 Enterprise Service Bus Myths Debunked
- i-Technology Viewpoint: When to Leave Your First IT Job
- SOA Web Services Edge Conference Coverage on SYS-CON.TV









The past month has seen an unprecedented conc...






















