Greenpeace just released this year’s “Cool It Leaderboard” report. That report analyzes leading IT companies and grades their energy and climate related policies. Google came out on top this year, and Softbank also had a good result mainly because of their advocacy for renewable energy after the Fukushima accident. While this is a good result … [Read more…]
Rick Falkvinge has a new blog post up where he compares the copyright industry to the ice distribution industry that was made obsolete by the introduction of refrigerators. That makes sense if you are already convinced that the copyright industry is obsolete and useless in the Internet age. In that case, it is an interesting … [Read more…]
And this article wants to explain why. One important factor seems to be that Google gets some tax advantages from these investments. The article doesn’t mention two other important factors. For one, Google needs a lot of electricity for its own business. Getting that from renewable sources gives them security on their costs for decades. … [Read more…]
Google makes another $95 million investment in large-scale solar power, bringing their total clean energy investments to over $915 million (Official Google Blog post) . This time they take advantage of a new feed-in tariff for solar created at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. This makes business sense as well as for the climate, and … [Read more…]
MSNBC reports that Google has discontinued a number of projects, including their plan to get renewable energy cheaper than coal. They are still committed to get their own over 2 TWh a year electricity 100% from renewable energy and have a couple of related investments. While it would have been good news for Google to … [Read more…]
Someone from Justia BlawgSearch pointed out by mail to me that comment spammers have infested some of the older posts on this blog with invisible links to all sorts of pharmaceutical products. Cleaning up that mess gives me an opportunity to read the posts I wrote a couple of years here again. Here is a … [Read more…]
I have just renamed the category “Google-free zone” where I was writing all sorts of criticism about Google because of their privacy record (or lack thereof). It is now “Formerly Google-free zone, now go Google”. On March 27, I wrote that I would just basically stop posting about this category of questions since my interest … [Read more…]
I thought I would not bother any more about Google, but this post from someone disconnected from their service without any explanation or chance to discuss the case, and without any chance to back up data from the various Google accounts, is just too important to pass on. Clearly, anyone using Google accounts for anything … [Read more…]
Google has a policy in place that restricts acceptable use of their “Adwords” service. That policy prohibits advertisements for technology that claims to run cars on water. Now Ush2.com, which I have on my blogroll, reports that Google has banned them under that policy. I haven’t heard Google’s side of this story. But if that … [Read more…]
I have been writing quite a bit about the Google book search case on this blog. Now a court decision on the “Amended Settlement Agreement” has been published. The settlement agreement has failed. The Court has denied the motion for final approval. I applaud the decision, for the convincing reasons laid out in the discussion … [Read more…]