Comments on: Sunday Times and the Google non-story http://greenmonk.net/sunday-times-and-the-google-non-story/ Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:57:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: alan p http://greenmonk.net/sunday-times-and-the-google-non-story/comment-page-1/#comment-4552 alan p Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:58:22 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=767#comment-4552 Tom - a bit of top-level analysis I did on my blog using kWh, which are less, umm, "flexible" than CO" grams. The Times article gives Google the energy needs of a 500,000 person city, the Google figures give the energy needs of a village. Google's infrastructure is far closer in scale to that required by a moderate sized city than a village. So, if not search, something is eating up all the power. (See here http://broadstuff.com/archives/1494-Google-searching-not-eco-friendly.html) Tom – a bit of top-level analysis I did on my blog using kWh, which are less, umm, “flexible” than CO” grams. The Times article gives Google the energy needs of a 500,000 person city, the Google figures give the energy needs of a village.

Google’s infrastructure is far closer in scale to that required by a moderate sized city than a village. So, if not search, something is eating up all the power.

(See here http://broadstuff.com/archives/1494-Google-searching-not-eco-friendly.html)

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » How Green is The Cloud? http://greenmonk.net/sunday-times-and-the-google-non-story/comment-page-1/#comment-4551 James Governor’s Monkchips » How Green is The Cloud? Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:24:38 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=767#comment-4551 [...] sure he correlated the question with this slightly bizarre incident he also wrote up, in which Google rebuts a claim about how energy intensive it is. Plausible denial against academic [...] [...] sure he correlated the question with this slightly bizarre incident he also wrote up, in which Google rebuts a claim about how energy intensive it is. Plausible denial against academic [...]

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