Does Google Want to Control the World?
SodaHead News October 14, 2010
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Google first started as a geeky search engine; now it wants to take over the wind.
The Internet giant rules the search world, has cornered e-mail and is coming on strong with social media tools. But it also, for some strange reason, has an affinity for green technology, and it puts its mighty power, with some $30 billion in cash on hand, behind it.
According to Reuters, Google acquired a 37.5 percent stake in a proposed $5 billion electric transmission line that could unblock practical problems for wind farms off the East Coast.
"This will serve as a clean-energy superhighway, with on-ramps for wind farms and the ability to be intelligently expanded," said Rick Needham, Google's green business operations director, according to Reuters. "We can help kick-start an industry that can provide thousands of jobs."
The project would help off-shore wind farm developers by allowing them to connect to multiple electrical grids so that they can sell the energy created. Does Google want to control our energy too? Diabolical, Dr. Do No Evil.
The Internet giant rules the search world, has cornered e-mail and is coming on strong with social media tools. But it also, for some strange reason, has an affinity for green technology, and it puts its mighty power, with some $30 billion in cash on hand, behind it.
According to Reuters, Google acquired a 37.5 percent stake in a proposed $5 billion electric transmission line that could unblock practical problems for wind farms off the East Coast.
"This will serve as a clean-energy superhighway, with on-ramps for wind farms and the ability to be intelligently expanded," said Rick Needham, Google's green business operations director, according to Reuters. "We can help kick-start an industry that can provide thousands of jobs."
The project would help off-shore wind farm developers by allowing them to connect to multiple electrical grids so that they can sell the energy created. Does Google want to control our energy too? Diabolical, Dr. Do No Evil.
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Google is a huge company, maybe too big for it's own good, but I highly doubt it's aiming for world domination. It's just using some of it's money to do good things for the world.
If Google and Microsoft wanted to, they could cause entire markets to crash because of the amount of software they have that the rest of the world depends on, and the size of the networks they control.
But these are also companies that are capable of things the public would never hear about.
The only issue that does raise concern is the vast amount of information they can access through their massive Data Centres (Centers) that have most probably got 90%+ of our personal information on them.
JO
"DO NO EVIL"
Google has unseated plenty of titans; as a titan, they are not invulnerable to being uprooted.