Well I guess ’14′ is not a very important number, since Google’s own birthday doodle is an animated GIF: Does that really say PooP? .. unless you count this ’14′ year old girl with ’14′ million views? That’s evil Google, even if you didn’t actually make that the top search result for ’14 years old’, […] As a follow up to my previous post on Internet pollution which discussed the amount of electrical consumption and wasteful energy practices by data centers; a post from the NY Times today really summed up the national mentality towards the consumption of energy and the wastefulness of the industry. The Microsoft Redmond Quincy data center, […] Last night in Japan, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, spoke openly about Google Maps and Apple products without holding much back. It all started with a simple question of if Google was working on a ‘Maps’ application for the iPhone5 (or iOS 6). Schmidt’s response was very frank and left no wiggle room for the […] The New York Times hired the consulting firm of McKinsey & Company to conduct an extensive year-longdata center energy audit to document power consumption and usage patterns amongst data centers in the United States. With tens of thousands of data centers, and no regulations in place to curb energy consumption, the information age is at […]