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"Back in May, Britain’s national weather service, the Met Office, got itself a really big, really powerful supercomputer to help with forecasting and modeling the effects of climate change. Now a government assessment of the carbon footprint of more than 28,000 public buildings has found that, thanks to the massive power consumption of said supercomputer, the Met Office headquarters ranks as one of the least green buildings in the country. As Maurice Spurway, a Friends of the Earth spokesman, drily observed, “Life is full of ironies and I think this is one of those situations."

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/08/the-laughing-gas-menace-and-other-science-news.html