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Undertoad

09-08-2011 01:28 AM

Google points out that cloud computing is "green"

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/...-in-cloud.html

Quote:

... switching to Gmail can be almost 80 times more energy efficient (PDF) than running in-house email. This is because cloud-based services are typically housed in highly efficient data centers that operate at higher server utilization rates and use hardware and software that’s built specifically for the services they provide—conditions that small businesses are rarely able to create on their own.

I never thought of that. But it's obviously true, and Google points out that there are 4 million businesses using Google's efficient server farms for their email instead of running their own, generally inefficient and ill-considered servers, which all obviously run 24x7.

Quote:

You’d have to watch YouTube for three straight days for our servers to consume the amount of energy required to manufacture, package and ship a single DVD.

I'm not an internet addict. I'm an environmentalist.

classicman

09-08-2011 12:55 PM

Very interesting.

Clodfobble

09-08-2011 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

You’d have to watch YouTube for three straight days

Also, if you could click on a few of those Google Ads while you're on your YouTube bender, well gosh, that'd be great too...

ZenGum

09-09-2011 03:47 AM

Quote:

You’d have to watch YouTube for three straight days for

Challenge accepted.

DanaC

09-09-2011 05:00 AM

3 Days? Amateur.

HungLikeJesus

09-09-2011 04:35 PM

Without using the bathroom?

Griff

09-10-2011 09:35 AM

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Teleflex-M...r-Kit/14878243

Spexxvet

09-10-2011 09:40 AM

Quote:

You’d have to watch YouTube for three straight days for our servers to consume the amount of energy required to manufacture, package and ship a single DVD.

I'm still using Office 2003 and Quicken 2004, so I figure I'm way past the break-even point.

Lamplighter

09-10-2011 11:08 AM

It's still just the "big computer in the sky"

But now when a virtual fuse blows, half the business world can go dark...

Ironsolid

09-13-2011 12:00 AM

We could all start using http://Blackle.com instead of directly using Google! in order to save energy.

Quote:

Blackle is a website powered by Google Custom Search and created by Heap Media, which aims to save energy by displaying a black background and using grayish-white font color for search results.[3] Blackle claims saving almost 2.67 million watt-hours of energy,[4] a claim currently under dispute.[5]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackle.com

ZenGum

09-14-2011 09:43 PM

Blackle only saves energy if you're using a CRT monitor, in which case, you're being very gren by carrying old technology.

With LCD monitors, the backlight is on all the time, making the screen by default white, and it uses more power to make a pixel go black.

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