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Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy
An anonymous reader writes "The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday granted Google the authority to buy and sell energy on a wholesale basis. Google applied for the authorization last December through a wholly owned subsidiary called Google Energy. 'We made this filing so we can have more flexibility in procuring power for Google's own operations, including our data centers,' Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said via e-mail. But the authorization also raises the prospect that Google may start to buy and sell energy as a business." Reader angry_tapir supplies a link to the approval document itself (PDF).
An overgrown advertising company now wants to own domestic wired/home internet, online communications, video, mobile communications, and now electricity? Fuck you, Google. What, do you want to sell my light usage statistics to drug companies so they can target sleep medication to me?
This is a terrible, terrible decision by the DOE. Google has absolutely no place in this, and never should. When you find yourself actually wanting ENERGY MULTINATIONALS of all corporations to gain somehow, you know a situation is significantly fucked up.
They're arrogant, unethical slime of the lowest order. The absolutely least creative, least innovative, most craven forms of calligulistic capitalism that exist at the moment. They add nothing significant without destroying its promise with their overbearing policies.
And if you think that Google has ever, even once, given something away for free, you're a chump, and completely deserve what's happening to you.
Luckily, Google will eventually become so pathetically overstretched and vulnerable as to be slowly eaten to death by ants. Or perhaps finally justly destroyed via the Government, ten years too late.
Because the tapirs were planning to get into the eneryg bussiness themselves.
... what's the world ranking for Googlestan in term of carbon footprint?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !