Best of the blogs: One dozen governors sent an open letter to Congressional leaders requesting that the Senate and House raise the number of H-1B and permanent visas, Ephraim Schwartz reports in this Reality Check post. Problem is, the letter offered no stats to back up the claim that we have a talent shortage. “If someone can show these governors the statistics that there is no shortage, rather the call for more H-1B visas is motivated by the desire for cheap labor will they take back their letter and say, never mind?Green IT: With it’s new Barcelona chip, AMD “has the potential to make green-tech-conscious datacenter operator cheer, ‘Ole!'” writes Ted Samson in AMD lays down a green chip in Barcelona. The stand-out stat Mr. Samson came across is that, “despite the power boost, it effectively uses the same amount of energy and produces the same amount of heat as a two-core.” Columnist’s corner: If you’ve ever felt like succumbing to the lure of startups was at all romantic and thought about doing so, David Margulius would like to set you straight. “Forget about it, I’m going to save you the trouble. It’s not glamorous like that. Maybe energizing on some level — but boy, it certainly ain’t pretty,” he writes in Meetup madness: Slumming it in startup land. And he knows, having spent the last few months attending such pow-wows, sharing beer with entrepreneurial folk, exchanging ideas. “Now maybe I just haven’t gone to the right ones, but I’ve gone to enough that I’m starting to see some recurring themes.” Eight, to be exact. The news beat: Sun sells it will start selling Windows operating systems pre-installed on its 64-bit servers within 90 days. The ongoing, mind-blowing data explosion rocks IT, driven by business systems as well as cell phones, digital cameras and other devices. EMC could face a class-action discrimination and harassment lawsuit if a judge opens an existing case to other female workers. And Sun scoops up Cluster File Systems to gain the open source Lustre File System for an undisclosed sum. Technology Industry