EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online
Eco-Office Gals
OCTOBER 9, 2011
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 kilowatt hours worth of energy annually per user. In an April 2011 report entitled “How Dirty is your Data?”
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