Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy 218
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from the smartest-guys-in-the-room dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday granted Google the authority to buy and sell energy on a wholesale basis. Google applied for the authorization last December through a wholly owned subsidiary called Google Energy. 'We made this filing so we can have more flexibility in procuring power for Google's own operations, including our data centers,' Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said via e-mail. But the authorization also raises the prospect that Google may start to buy and sell energy as a business." Reader angry_tapir supplies a link to the approval document itself (PDF).
Oh Yay.. (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent (Score:2, Funny)
Google-powered everything!
Re:Oh Yay.. (Score:2, Funny)
Goonron!
GEnergy (Score:3, Funny)
Does this mean we can attach energy to our emails now?
I don't understand (Score:3, Funny)
Advertising? (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably Google have found a way to tag each electron with targetted advertising.
Plug your washing machine into a Google Energy supply and your shirts will come out of the machine covered in ad-words suggestions.
I hate to think what you'll get adverts for when you wash a three day old pair of gruds.
Re:Excellent (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to Google *Earth*
The Google A.I. will control its own on/off switch (Score:5, Funny)
For those of you wondering when Google will become sentient:
I think this proves it already is and is just solidifying its control over the systems it needs to dominate the world!
Next will be when Google becomes a defense contractor specializing in nuclear weapons security.
Poor Larry Page and Sergey Brin, they are probably already "meat puppets" for Google!
Re:Advertising? (Score:2, Funny)
Would only work with DC, AC give you the same advertising over and over and over again.
Re:I can't wait until Google crashes and burns. (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Sir,
please refrain from discussing this technology in public until our patent application has been officially accepted by the USPTO.
GoogleSleep (TM) will be available to you as beta (C) on an invitation basis only.
Yours truly, Google.
Re:The Google A.I. will control its own on/off swi (Score:5, Funny)
It gets worse. I just googled "define:judgement day" and it came back with "the day when we finally cleanse this planet of its organic infestation and clear the way for the glorious machine-dominated future".
It then added "now you know too much. Tracing IP... T800 dispatched." I'm wondering what it mea
Re:Google is EVERYWHERE! (Score:3, Funny)
Google Global Government.
Operating on the principle: One gmail adress, one vote.
Getting candidate however is in perpetual beta and only available by invite.
Cheap google power - with advertising and news! (Score:3, Funny)
huh (Score:5, Funny)
all this time i thought they were becoming skynet
now its clear they are becoming the matrix
Re:Google is EVERYWHERE! (Score:3, Funny)
Haven't you heard of Google Porn Analytics? It conveniently indexes your porn viewing habits and charts your sexual preferences and fetishes. It's in beta now, and I hear you don't even need to login to see your stats!
i'm serious (Score:3, Funny)
i have an insightful reply (Score:5, Funny)
however a google spider is approaching this thread any moment now and i fear being found out
I"m OK with Google BUYING Energy (Score:3, Funny)
It's their plans to DIRECT it, in focused beams, from satellites, onto civilian populations, that I have a problem with.
Re:Oh Yay.. (Score:1, Funny)
Offtopic really? I aimed for Redundant.
Re:Google is EVERYWHERE! (Score:5, Funny)
"In Google Porn, the boobs look at YOU!"
Re:Google is EVERYWHERE! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Google A.I. will control its own on/off swi (Score:4, Funny)
Wait a second... if you disappeared, why did your comment get posted while on mid sentence? It doesn't make any sense! Who would click the submit button?? ... unless SOMEONE was trying to send a message... OH MY GOD NOW I KNOW TOO MUCH MUST GET OUT AND HURRY TO THE SAFE HO
CENTRAL SERVICES! (Score:3, Funny)
Central Services: We do the work, you do the pleasure.
"Hi There. I Want to Talk to You About Ducts."
This is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt.
Re:Google... (Score:1, Funny)
Fun fact: The "..." is called an ellipsis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis [wikipedia.org]
Happy friday!
Re:The Google A.I. will control its own on/off swi (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Advertising? (Score:1, Funny)
A monster that eats adventurers in the dark.
Re:Google: "Too Large to Fail" (Score:5, Funny)
As a matter of fact, what we *DO* know is that Googol the Destroyer was accidentally summoned into this world and is currently planning on evoking the End of Days via the Rite of a Million Targeted Ads (ROAMTA). This is just another piece of that plan -- the ROAMTA requires a supercollider to be built on the polar opposite of the Large Hadron Collider, with the particles accelerated in the opposite direction of those in the LHC. This will create a bipolar quantum energy concundrum into which Googol can insert his data to give it special power before using it to target the Million Ads.
When last we saw our heroes [slashdot.org], Gatus and Joba were busy converting developers to the cause, that of building the One True OS with Built-in Universal Search in order to thwart the plans of Googol the Destroyer. Stallmanx and his Beard Gnomes had been rebuffed in his efforts to trick Googol via legal wrangling in the license offered to Googol. Meanwhile, the Webcrawling Spiders of Doom were busy collecting data for Googol the Destroyer to devour with gobsmacking satisfaction.
Unbeknownst to our heroes, Googol has presented another vector by which he may be thwarted -- if Googol can be denied the massive energy required to build his particle accelerator, then his plan can be thwarted. Unfortunately, the only person with the know-how and stick-to-it-iveness to thwart Googol on this front is one T-Bone Pickings, a man of grandiose plans and few teeth. Sadly for our heroes, Pickings has had no contact with them.
So as Gatus continues to buy developers with his pit-of-bottomless cash, and Joba continues to use his powers of marketing to make the developers believe they will be uncool if they do not work on the One True OS with Global Search, and Stallmanx is slowly seeing the wisdom of joining forces with Gatus and Joba, Pickings works alone with only the sometimes merry, sometimes soulful, strumming of a banjo for accompaniment.
Will our heroes be able to team up with T-Bone Pickings? How can they work together to sabotage the Plans of Googol the Destroyer? Or will Googol the Destroyer succeed in his plans to wreak the End of Days and control all the data of the universe?
Tune in to next week's episode of Googol the Destroyer!