To be sure, those figures represent a "best guess" made by Stanford professor Jonathan Koomey.
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.
To be sure, those figures represent a "best guess" made by Stanford professor Jonathan Koomey.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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