Xbox Live Lives Here Simon Norfolk via The New York Times From Popular Science:
A routing algorithm can channel Internet data to locations where electricity prices are cheapest
Moving computing from the desktop to the 24/7 data centers of the "cloud" may be the way forward (just ask Google), but it will come with a hefty energy price. Teams at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University, however, are developing a smart algorithm that could reroute Internet traffic to where energy is cheapest at any given moment, potentially saving millions of dollars in energy usage.
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