Google is planning to deploy a solar electricity system that will have a capacity of 1.6 megawatts at its famed million square foot headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. It will be the largest such installation on a corporate campus in the United States and one of the largest in the world, the company said. EI Solutions, a subsidiary of Energy Innovations, will build the system, which will have enough capacity to power 1,000 homes in California. Installation of the panels -- numbering more than 9,000
-- will begin in November.
Those amusing YouTube video clips that Internet users send to friends gobble up large chunks of bandwidth and may cause the Net to crash, some elements of the telecom industry warn. It's an admonition many dismiss as political posturing intended to dissuade lawmakers from restricting the freedom of phone companies to manage Internet traffic as they wish. However, no one disagrees that the Web's capacity is being pushed to its limits.