{"id":4251,"date":"2016-05-23T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:08:53","slug":"mi3m-episode-4-making-significant-progress-airports-and-web-scale-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/mi3m-episode-4-making-significant-progress-airports-and-web-scale-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Mi3M episode 4 making significant progress. airports and web scale renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1z-H9IK2-Ys\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week a few things caught my eye in the world of renewable energy &#8211; we&#8217;re making so much rapid progress in that respect there is real cause of optimism. An Indian airport running 100% on solar, Portugal making all the running as a global post Carbon leader, and new commitments from Microsoft to renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand I was waxing on this stuff <a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2009\/01\/12\/how-green-is-the-cloud\/\">back in 2009<\/a>, so progress is slower than needed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems to that we\u2019re facing an economy of scale problem here- and frankly if Goog and M$ didn\u2019t know energy was an issue they wouldn\u2019t be building on rivers, and investing in wind farms<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Economies of scale come with a direct measurable cost &#8211; Apple&#8217;s data investment in Ireland, is projected to <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/apple-data-centre-could-increase-irelands-electricity-consumption-by-82-2016-4\">potentially increase the country&#8217;s energy consumption by 8%<\/a>. It will be up Ireland to work with Apple to ensure investments in renewable energy to support the country&#8217;s new requirements. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on the minus side &#8211; it&#8217;s too damn hot. Last Friday India recorded its hottest temperature ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week a few things caught my eye in the world of renewable energy &#8211; we&#8217;re making so much rapid progress in that respect there is real cause of optimism. An Indian airport running 100% on solar, Portugal making all the running as a global post Carbon leader, and new commitments from Microsoft to renewable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-16z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}