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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

Eco-Office Gals

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 the long run, analysts think that the widespread shift to cloud computing will be a great boon to the environment.