How Google Battles Power Consumption

People often joke that laptops are actually lap heaters, and PCs personal spaceheaters. They may use little energy compared to other appliances, but all that heat adds up – especially if you have thousands of computers racked together.
Masters of data efficiency, Google, have a big challenge on their hand with energy consumption at their massive data center. Opps Manager Urs Hoelzle says over 4 years, power costs of a PC can add up to half the hardward cost. TGdaily has a great article with more details and some of the tricks Google pulls to cut power consumption.
(via Treehugger)