Google Data Center-CO2
If you're reading this you probably use the internet everyday, ever wonder how much IT infrastructure it takes to bring the TF to your screen.
Providing our users with fast, innovative products requires significant computing power. Data centers – which are large facilities containing lots of computers – account for most of Google’s energy needs. We take our energy use seriously and, from the very beginning, Google has focused on designing systems that use as little energy as possible. A decade later, we are operating what we believe to be the world's most efficient data centers.
How efficient is our infrastructure? Google-designed data centers use about half the energy of a typical data center. As a result, the energy used per Google search is very small; to be precise, we currently use about 1kJ (0.0003 kWh) of energy to answer the average query. This translates into roughly .2g of CO2 (for non-metric users, that's 0.007 ounces). Not only is energy use very small, web searches often take the place of more carbon- and time-intensive activities, such as driving a car to a library or spending hours navigating shopping malls.
http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/
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