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NDTV.com: India N-powered: Senate clears historic nuclear deal

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With an overwhelming majority, the US Senate voted to overturn a three-decade ban on atomic trade with India, charting a major shift in US policy toward nuclear-armed India after decades of mutual wariness.

But not without a hitch. (Watch)

Opponents of the bill raised an amendment asking that the United States would not just terminate nuclear trade but also seek that all NSG countries suspend nuclear trade with India in the case India tests again.

Senator Byron Dorgan, an opponent of the legislation, says: “We have said to India with this agreement, ‘you can misuse American nuclear technology and secretly develop nuclear weapons. That is what they did. ‘You can test those weapons.’ That is what they did? ‘You can build a nuclear arsenal in defiance of United Nations resolutions and international sanctions, and after testing, 10 years later, all will be forgiven and you will be welcome into the club of nuclear powers without ever having signed the Nonproliferation treaty.”

In response, proponents of the bill said amendments were unnecessary, clarifying that the existing law says there will be consequences if India tests.

Senator Richard Lugar, ranking member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says: “One of the basic goals of this agreement is to prevent India from testing. India retains right to test. True, they are a sovereign nation but the consequences of another nuclear test would be dire. Rice has said we are very clear with India. If India test the deal is off.”

While the deal has gained the Congressional approval and is only pending President Bush’s signature before becoming a reality, India is still concerned with the ambiguous nature of some clauses in the bill concerning fuel supplies.

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Commitment to Sustainable Computing

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Introduction

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and supporting this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great internet services while taking our energy use very seriously. That’s why, almost a decade ago, we started our efforts to make our computing infrastructure as sustainable as possible. Today we are operating what we believe to be the world’s most efficient data centers.

The graph below shows that our Google-designed data centers use considerably less energy – both for the servers and the facility itself – than a typical data center. As a result, the energy used per Google search is minimal. In fact, in the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than we will use to answer your query.

But sustainability is about more than electricity, so we’ve gone beyond just reducing our energy consumption. Before the end of 2008 two of our facilities will run on 100% recycled water, and by 2010 we expect recycled water to provide 80% of our total water consumption. We also carefully manage the retirement of our servers to ensure that 100% of this material is either reused or recycled. Finally, we are engaging our users and peers to help build a clean and efficient energy future. This broader impact could be significant; if all data centers operated at the same efficiency as ours, the U.S. alone would save enough electricity to power every household within the city limits of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Sustainability is good for the environment, but it makes good business sense too. Most of our work is focused on saving resources such as electricity and water and, more often than not, we find that these actions lead to reduced operating costs. Being “green” is essential to keeping our business competitive. It is this economic advantage that makes our efforts truly sustainable.

Our five step plan

Minimize electricity used by servers
Reduce the energy used by the data center facilities themselves
Conserve precious fresh water by using recycled water instead
Reuse or recycle all electronic equipment that leaves our data centers
Engage with our peers to advance smarter energy practices

These steps are just a starting point, and we’re not done yet. We’re committed to being carbon neutral as a company, and we’re always looking for ways to make the services we provide more sustainable. To help us achieve this vision we need passionate, innovative engineers who are motivated to push the boundaries of efficient computing design. Join us and help make organizing the world’s information greener.

Step 1: Efficient Servers »

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