For many traditional IT companies, the lure of energy efficiency efforts is two-fold: data center costs are becoming dominated by power use, so greater efficiency will both save them money and provide them with products and services that they can sell to other companies. These efforts also fall nicely in line with the goals of the Department of Energy, which is now using some of its stimulus money to fund data center efficiency projects from companies like Alcatel-Lucent, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Yahoo. Meanwhile, Google has decided it needs greater control over the power coming in, and will be launching its own utility, which will focus on supplying it with renewable energy. via ArsTechnica c/o Twitter_Tips

An amazing article found via DrugStorCowboy on Twitter via Ubuntu101 with the stimulus money flowing at least through the end of 2010, Google and other hard hitters in the industry are grasping a piece of a Green Movement in a new direction of using renewable energy instead of the standard energy helping the environment while also moving forward in their own steps in making Google more than it has been before. To be self-sustaining, through the use of green energy in powering their data centers which can often be interpreted as the backbone of some of the biggest networks in the world.

This is a remarkable step in a new direction, of living a greener life, but the question remains as mentioned in the article, what happens to all this progress once the funding dries up? What then will occur in the future, will all these great steps in a new direction end in a stalemate? Once there is no more income coming from DOE (Department of Energy) when the stimulus money runs out, will that be the end? Or will it be self-sufficient, and growing by the time the money is gone?

There are many questions but at the very least this is a step in a new good direction, in helping the environment continue to exist, and increasing the understanding that the future is green, Just as Ubuntu should see it, and just as many of the Linux Distributions understand it. It is the future, and it is better on the overall if each do what they need to do in progressing this change to a cleaner energy source for some of the most energy dependant resources, the systems that run the interwebs, the data centers around the world. Be interesting to see where it goes from here, what are some of your views on making things greener? How are you also doing your part to help improve the environment? Share your view in the comments, look forward to hearing more from you in the future.

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