Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @11:57PM from the google-watt-hours dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has teamed up with microcontroller maker Microchip to develop an API for a piece of software called Google PowerMeter, according this EE Times story. Why? Because Google wants to host all the details of the electricity and other energy consumption of people's homes. It wants to do this so that it can show people on their iGoogle homepages when and where they are consuming energy so that they can start to reduce their power consumption. The good news is that it is an opt-in service and free so you don't have to make Google your energy-monitor if you don't want to do so."

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Re:Soon - Google wants to be your valentine - by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-25 00:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Google Shit (TM)
No need to wait, the future is now! Google Shit (TM) is already available under the code name Youtube(TM).
Re:Handy for DEA... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-25 00:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought you said you didn't grow reefer?
Re:Blah blah blah by MrNaz · 2010-03-25 01:01 · Score: 5, Funny

It's wrong because it violates the third law of thermofinancials: Bills are always created and can never be destroyed.

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Re:Blah blah blah by SloWave · 2010-03-25 05:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Can I am assume you are a software engineer?