Google fires back on energy use claims

The news was all over the blogosphere this weekend: Doing two web searches on Google creates enough carbon dioxide to boil a kettle.It was based on an article in the Times of London (and so now the kettle of tea comparison make sense), which reported on a Harvard researcher’s study of the environmental impact of computing.The energy used to complete a search was explained thusly:… its search engine generates high levels of CO2 because of the way it operates. When you type in a Google search for, say, “energy

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