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Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. If we sign up, can we see Google's energy data? by codeAlDente · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously, how much energy do they use? Why won't they tell us? Sounds evil.

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    He once inserted random mutations into his code, just so he could have the experience of debugging.