Today is Blog Action Day. Bloggers around the world are writing about the environment. Did you participate? If so, please provide a link so I can read your blog post!
Here's mine.
Here's mine.
Great.
It's ironic that one of the fastest-growing consumers of energy in the world today are server farms. In fact a major part of California's new "green" initiative to cut in-state greenhouse gas emissions is to move the huge server farms that their economy depends on to states with less restrictive environmental rules, e.g., Nevada. I don't think the citizens of California have noticed that the earth's atmosphere doesn't respect state borders.
According to this article in CNet PC's and servers now consume between 8 and 13% of US electricity! That same article describes a server farm that was being built near San Jose as having "10 huge air-conditioned warehouses on 174 acres that would constantly draw 180 megawatts of electricity--about enough to provide energy for all the homes in a city the size of Honolulu."
That was a few years ago and recent server farms being built by Google and Yahoo in other states are even bigger.
So if the blogosphere - and that includes me - were really serious about the environment, we would turn off our computers and stop blogging.
Don’t go to your critique group. All that smoke you’re blowing up each other’s asses is sucking the oxygen out of the Amazon, not to mention giving you ass cancer.