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Re: Google's PUE

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Oct 1 16:19:33 2008

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
In-Reply-To: <200810011906.m91J6JZk037578@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

>> OK, green hat off. :)  Seriously, I doubt GOOG isn't seeing serious
>> savings from this over time.  If they weren't why would they do it?
>>
> 	They seem to be very environment focused, so I'm sure doing
> anything that isn't is subject to scrutiny from the rest of the industry.

Personal 747, cough, cough...

I'd bet at their scale, they're saving tens if not hundreds of thousands 
of dollars a month on their data center power bills by optimizing power 
efficiency.

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