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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

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While the energy usage required to run its cloud services (Google Search, Google+, Gmail and YouTube) seems huge in the aggregate—it used 260 megawatt hours to power its data centers in 2010—it boils down to only 7.4 In an April 2011 report entitled “How Dirty is your Data?” kilowatt hours worth of energy annually per user.

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Smartphones May Soon Double As Air Pollution Monitors

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In 2010, however, Apple changed the game once again by introducing the world to its current idea of the tablet computer in the form of the iPad. Five Carbon Footprint Saving iPhone Apps for Business. 10 Apps for the Entrepreneur 2011. Post from: Eco-Office Gals Smartphones May Soon Double As Air Pollution Monitors.