Google just announce that its information centers use 260 million watts to big businessman Google hunt , YouTube video , Gmails , ads and so on and so on . That ’s about a quarter of the output of a freaking nuclear baron flora . Or more baron than Salt Lake City use .
fundamentally , it ’s a ridiculous amount of energy , enough to power a metropolis of 100,000 to 200,000 people . For comparability , Salt Lake City , Utah ‘ only ’ has 186,440 mass . Google reason that it ’s okayish to be using that much power because people are really saving Department of Energy by using Google ( searching instead of using the library , permit ’s say ) . The median Google drug user ’s muscularity usage is similar to running a 60 - W lightbulb for 3 hour . Not bad for all the cat videos we watch . [ NY Times ]
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