Thursday, August 4, 2011

Google runs 900,000 servers, uses 0.01% of world's electricity

Google runs 900,000 servers that possibly consume u0.01 percent of worldwide electricity, compared to data centers as a whole, which account for up to 1.5 percent of worldwide electricity use, and as much as 2.2 percent of U.S. electricity.

To be sure, those figures represent a "best guess" made by Stanford professor Jonathan Koomey.

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FTC Opens New Inquiry Into Microsoft Cloud Computng Practices

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans an investigation into Microsoft cloud computing practices, apparently licensing practices that tend...