HELPING ENVIRONMENT... GOOGLE ENERGY... RENEWABLE ENERGY INITIATIVE BY THE GIANT

Source:arstechnica.com

But some of the more interesting projects are going to smaller companies and the academic world. Santa Clara's SeaMicro will be testing physicalized servers with hundreds of processors that may see a 75 percent energy saving.

But an interview with Bill Weihl, the Google executive who runs their green energy initiatives, highlights a danger of the current environment: it's highly dependent on the stimulus money. "At the end of 2010, when the stimulus ends, we're going to drive off the biggest funding cliff the energy field has ever seen," Weihl said.