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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."
No, but your analogy assumes that Google's proposal is an obviously good engineering solution, which hasn't yet been proven.
Sorry, but assembling servers out of COTS components doesn't make you an expert on computer design any more than working on a car assembly line makes you an automotive engineer. I'll bet the "manufacturing" effort at Google was carried out by relatively low paid workers, not Google "puzzle" solvers.