Google is Ubiquitous

Our power company installed a "smart meter" some months ago, one feature of which is online monitoring of power usage. I finally decided that it would be cool to see that, not that it would do anything about my usage probably, and went online to see the feature. Turns out it has to be "activated" and that is not a service provided by the power company. The power company sends the data to... Guess who. Indeed it does. The monitoring is then provided on a website which has a Google url.