Grünes Internet: Wieviel CO2 Avatare ausatmen. Es fängt im Kleinen an. Bei einer Google-Suchanfrage. Etwa acht Wattstunden Strom benötigt die Suchmaschine, um den User daheim am Rechner mit einer Ergebnisliste zu versorgen. Die Suchanfrage wird dabei durch ein Cluster von knapp 32.000 Servern geschleust, die insgesamt 150 Megawattstunden Energie pro Tag verschlingen und zusammen mit anderen Clustern Googles Stromrechnung auf insgesamt eine Milliarde Dollar im Jahr anschwellen lassen.
Green IT Globally. Papers, Studies, Working Groups. Organizations. Devices. Basics. Problematic substances. Declarations. Companies. Significance of the Digital. Data/Server Centers. Dirty Data timeline. Facebook announced that it is building another data center, a big one, this time in the windy state of Iowa, which currently leads the United States in electricity generated from wind with an eye-popping 25%!
Read more. Thanks to some pressure from Google, the largest utility company in the U.S., Duke Energy, now plans to offer a "renewable energy tariff" to its major customers, or an option to buy 100% renewable energy. This will allow Google, who also announced plans to double the size of one its data center in Duke’s territory in North Carolina, an option to power its cloud with clean energy. Apple released an environmental report showing that it has made real progress in its effort to power the iCloud with renewable energy, and not coal.
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