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The Surprising Energy Used In Google Search

The Energy As the world's largest search engine, Google processes nearly 13 Billion monthly searches. They are able to handle such large volumes of data because they have huge datacenters with thousands of servers capable of handling immense capacities. Such large amounts of computing power require a great deal of electricity. This electricity consumption translates directly into carbon emissions. Take a look below: Used in Google Search Could power a bicycle for 14.4 seconds Could power a 100 watt lightbulb for 4,534 Years Could power a bicycle for 5,936 years Could power a 100 watt lightbulb for 11 seconds Generates as much C02 as your car produces by driving three inches Generates about 626,506 miles worth of CO2 from driving One All Monthly Google Search Google Searches .0003 kWh 3,900,000 kWh Generates as much C02 as you breathe out in 2 seconds Generates as much C02 as .02g C02 260,000 kg CO2 you breathe out in 824 years Creates enough CO2 to fil| 1/30th of a 12oz soda can Creates enough CO2 to fill 1/12 of Giants Stadium Consumes as much power as your heart uses in 9 minutes Uses as much power as 2 Billion hours of human heart beats Uses one Could power 4,239 average homes for 3,000,000th of the energy used by the average home per month one month Based on data provided at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-search.html

The Surprising Energy Used In Google Search

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Doing a Google search doesn't cause any CO2 emissions, does it? It turns out that it does. Find out how much of a carbon footprint Google leaves for each search and the surprising amount of energy c...

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