Kenneth O'Donnell , lead reliability engineer at Boeing, is looking to overhaul 80 motors--between 5 hp and 7.5 hp--that run cooling fans at the company's giantserver farm in Kent, Wash.
It wants to be the brain in your washing machine, your microwave and your car, not to mention the giantserver farms dotted around the planet that will power cloud computing as more of our day-to-day work gets stored online.
The prospect of giant Google-server farms built next to power plants makes executives from IBM to Accenture (nyse: ACN - news - people ) sit up straight.