http://www.theconscientioushome.net/articles.phpcon_id=181
Ive been reading articles about some of the biggest corporations in the world (including Wal-Mart, Ford, General Electric and BP) have made efforts to go green. They are starting to take a cue from environmentalism in their marketing and core business operations. This article was about Google, in particular making the effort. The reasons for this are: manufacturing requires a lot of energy. Computing requires a lot of energy. Air conditioning for all of the computers requires a lot of energy. If you combines groups of these: you just plain need a lot of energy.
On September 26, Google announced their progress towards more environmentally friendy and efficent means. The fundamental idea is to first rebuild their network by using infrastructures that optimize use of multiple computers to process mas data. The second aspect is incorporating "chip multiprocessing" to make individual computers more efficient by using multiple simple processors rather than very large, fast processors.
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