Category: Technology

The case is simple: Do you have a 45 Mbps, bi-directional service to your home, paying around $40? Do you have 500+ channels and can choose any competitive service? You paid an estimated $2000 for this product even though you did not receive it and it may never be available. Do you want your money back and the companies held accountable?

Background: Starting in the early 1990’s, the Clinton-Gore Administration had aggressive plans to create the “National Infrastructure Initiative” to rewire ALL of America with fiber optic wiring, replacing the 100 year old copper wire. The Bell companies — SBC, Verizon, BellSouth and Qwest, claimed that they would step up to the plate and rewire homes, schools, libraries, government agencies, businesses and hospitals, etc. if they received financial incentives.

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Move over, SUV. The data center is the new energy hog.
Data centers, the giant rooms that house hundreds or thousands of computer servers, are growing in number and size. They’re running round the clock. And they need to be cooled.
They’re so energy-hungry that an average data center of 50,000 square feet uses enough power to light up 2,500 homes.

All this electricity to collect all the information in the world about us, to make us more “herdable” consumers …
MercuryNews.com | 02/01/2006 | Taming data centers’ appetite for energy