Who would have thought your carbon footprint extends all the way to your search queries on Google! In a new study by Jonathan Kommey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, servers for Google and other behemoth web companies are sucking up an immense amount of energy. According to Koomey, these firms' data centers consume one percent of the world's electricity and with the way they're growing, they may eat up five times as much a decade from now...
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Google actually has a really progressive environmental policy which you can see here:
http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/
They claim to be carbon neutral and are also funding renewable energy development in the hope that cheaper solutions than coal can be made.
I also read a recent article (forget where now) which claimed that though computing power did use a lot of resources, it was thought to be worth it because computers can be used to dramatically improve efficiencies of doing things, which can save us a lot.
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My Google searches suck up less energy than getting in my car and driving to the library.
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