Are Google's Data Centers the Greenest?
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Google contends its data centers are the world's most efficient. |
According to a company blog posted Wednesday, entitled Saving Electricity One Data Center at a Time, Google says its "data centers use nearly five times less energy than conventional facilities to feed and cool the computers inside."
The graph below shows what we've achieved: our data centers use considerably less energy for the servers themselves, and much less energy for cooling, than a typical data center. We achieved this milestone by significantly reducing the amount of energy needed for the data center facility overhead. ... Our engineers worked hard to optimize every element in the data center, from the chip to the cooling tower.
The blog also asserts Google servers use minimal energy to process each search.
In the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than we will use to answer your query.
