Should Power Usage Be A Secret?

The governor of Oklahoma, Brad Henry, has just signed a law allowing municipal power companies to not report power usage by their largest industrial customers. Lawmakers insisted this wasn’t a “Google bill,” despite the fact that Google just disclosed that it’s considering building a data center on 800 acres of land it has purchased in Pryor, Oklahoma. But a journalist involved in the discussion of the bill acknowledged that the measure is designed to benefit data center operators.

Not only does Google buy out huge companies on a regular basis, but they can magically have new laws created in their favor. They may require a lot of power for their datacenters, but it doesn’t come close to the 10 ton jiggawatts my PCs need.

Source: Data Center Knowledge