GreenTechies

CNET’s Stephen Shankland collected a bunch of Google produced videos on YouTube that discuss Google’s energy efficient container data centers…

YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs

You can see of the videos embedded above.

I bought a Kill-A-Watt power meter a couple of years ago to figure out how much power various computers, peripherals and gadgets I have use. Now, adafruit industries announced…

Tweet-a-Watt kits now available…

This Open Source hardware project tells you how to modify your own Kill-A-Watt to tweet power usage data. You can also buy prebuilt kits from adafruit. They have a Twitter account set up so you can see what the power info tweets look like: @tweetawatt.

BTW: You can find me on Twitter as @toddogasawara

From USA Today…

Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year

We’ve always known this wasteful behavior has a cost associated with it. Now, it has a number assigned to it and it is a big one. Windows users can Hibernate their PC. It works reasonably well on XP and Vista though it is not 100% reliable. However, when it does work, it is faster than rebooting and re-opening applications.