It’s not surprising that the Internet search-engine superstar needs energy. Companies like Google own massive computer frameworks, known as server farms, to store all that digital data floating around in cyberspace. While Google is quite hush-hush about how many computers it owns, estimates put it at about 1,000,000 servers (almost 2% of the world total), and an enormous amount of power is needed to keep them running constantly.
June 30th, 2010 | Marin Katusa | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "alternative energy"
What Will Happen When Oil is No longer a Viable Energy Source?
T. Boone Pickens’ new memoir, The First Billion is the Hardest, is better than I thought it would be. Based on reviews I’ve read, I thought it would spend a lot of time on Pickens’ plan to reduce U.S. oil dependency. I always find such discussions a bore. But that part of the book was only 10 of 250 pages. Mostly, it’s memoir material, with some peeks into the future as T. Boone sees it evolving…
December 4th, 2008 | Chris Mayer | 2 comments | Continued
