It is always worth listening to Andy Hopper, one of those Cambridge professors who successfully straddles the academic and business worlds. His latest pronouncement fits in well with the rise of interest in renewable energy technologies.
The Guardian has picked up on Andy’s recent comments at the Royal Society where he talked about the rising energy consumption of all those computers that increasingly flood the planet, perhaps in more ways than one. The resulting article, Wind power urged for computers, quotes Andy, who professes communications engineering at Cambridge, as saying “Computing power can be moved around the world and can be done anywhere in the world where the energy is available.”
It makes more sense than putting a windmill on top of every PC.
