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Google Calls For Power Supply Design Changes
Raindance writes "The New York Times reports that Google is calling 'for a shift from multivoltage power supplies to a single 12-volt standard. Although voltage conversion would still take place on the PC motherboard, the simpler design of the new power supply would make it easier to achieve higher overall efficiencies ... The Google white paper argues that the opportunity for power savings is immense — by deploying the new power supplies in 100 million desktop PC's running eight hours a day, it will be possible to save 40 billion kilowatt-hours over three years, or more than $5 billion at California's energy rates.' This may have something to do with the electricity bill for Google's estimated 450,000 servers."
Just think! DC Power Bus... Standard connectors... Good-bye wall-warts.... Mmmmmmmm... Donuts!
Dude! you're pretty impressive... just a little over an hour and you've already managed not only an FP, but 3 other trolls in the same article. If I were you, I would just brag about that instead of posting from now on (example: some article having something to do with linux or some such open source thingie, some guy is talking about how things are bloated these days, and you chime in... "Yea, you wanna see some bloat mate? I once trolled the same article 4 times in under an hour! and one of em was an FP!"). You'd be a legend cap'n.