From eweek:
“The IT industry currently consumes 1.5 percent of the energy in the United States, and that is expected to grow to 3 percent by 2010, making the industry the second largest industrial consumer of power, behind heavy manufacturing.”
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IT vs. Green?
Monday, August 20th, 2007Online on the range
Thursday, April 19th, 2007The most “wired” states (by one measure at least) are all rural:
The top five states that are online are also all largely rural: Alaska (72%), New Hampshire (70%), Utah (70%), Minnesota (69%) and Wyoming (68%). The USA national average is 59%.
Less populous states also have a higher density of entrepreneurs. These figures all make sense, but could be easily ignored/forgotten from my Silicon Valley/Bay Area tech cocoon.