We'll talk with Alec Proudfoot of Google and Allison Randal of the Radar team, co-chairs of our Energy Innovation Conference, about what they're seeing on the energy front as they're evaluating technologies, startups, and the hacker frontier for the conference. There's more than a casual connection between this and the previous topic. While there's a lot more happening on the energy front than its intersection with computing, it has been conversations with Google, Microsoft, and other large data center players that first made us aware of just what a critical factor energy consumption was becoming in their strategic thinking. It's become the new focus of many Silicon Valley VCs (Who would have thought that the investment focus of noted computer scientists turned VC like Bill Joy and Bob Metcalfe would be energy?)