Sun Microsystems
is
href="http://www.techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsID=10667">planning
to put a data center in an old coal mine. The idea is to save
on energy costs. In fact, they expect nine million dollars
per year on electricity. This is because much of the
electrical operating cost is for cooling.
This leads me to think we should do the same thing for the White House.
As an added benefit, we might see some long-overdue
href="http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/history-of-rockbursts-at-crandall-canyon/">improvements
in mine safety.
HT:
href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/2115211&from=rss">Zonk.
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