Google has come clean with its environmental impact - stating that it has around the same carbon footprint as the United Nations at 1.5m tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
However, good old Uncle Goog is keen to stress that its output from its data centres is around half of the industry average, and states that Gmail, for example, is 80 per cent more efficient than a desktop based email solution due to its more efficient servers.
Google's data centres use about 1 per of Koomey's worldwide data centre estimate, meaning that it's responsible for about 0.01 per of global electricity use. full article - Pocket-lint
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