Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter

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."

Comments

Re:Want to check your consumption?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I'm sorry, I'm a typical computer programmer. I was told there would be no math.

Re:Soon - Google wants to be your valentine -

[V!NCENT]

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http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJSMUSZHMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayez1cBisU

Just to name a few...