Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 18th 2011
And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… How La Poste Saves $7 Million a Year In IT Energy Costs France’s La Poste manages 180,000 PCs that sat mostly idle, yet still used as much electricity as if they were fully engaged in a difficult computing problem. “The AVOB solution does what other [...]
Tuesday Link Roundup
- The Merc takes a look at the diminished luster of stock options for compensation. There’s two things here, the first being that between AMT and option accounting rule changes the attractiveness of options for employees and employers has taken a big hit. Most people in Silicon Valley, and the tech industry more broadly, understand [...]
California’s High Speed Pipe Dream Revisited
In September 2008 I wrote this: Don’t you love how the proponents are telling us how much the ticket will cost even though this thing is two decades away from being completed, should the voters be duped into passing this measure. Sure, let’s add another $50 billion in debt that has a payoff price tag [...]
