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Old 01-14-2011, 06:31 AM
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Terasec
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Online browsing is not as green as you think.
cant recall source but remember reading every online search uses the equivilant electricity to boil 1/2 pot of water,
so for every 2 searches you do thats enough for 1 pot of water,
and how many searches does it take before someone finds what they are looking for?

copied and pasted from online:
To put it into perspective, if you had a datacenter with 10,000 CPUs (and no overhead equipment), and you paid $0.1 per KWh, you’d be facing an electric bill of about $108,000 per month. Again, according to the NYTimes, Google has around 450,000 machines. If they used these expensive chips, they’d be churning through $4.8M per month just for electricity.
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