Re: Greenwashing?
The pound signs associated with downtime are very large, so much so that the 5-nines reliability offered by the National Grid is inadequate for Google's needs.
It's the same story with NG itself. The backups to restart the system are (relatively) low cost and rarely used but very important items to get the country out of jail when things go wrong.
There's a recent call for information by NG for alternatives to diesels for much the same reasons Google is looking.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
