The Power (drain) of Search Engines
November 7th, 2008 by Ingrid Cliff
I was reading New Scientist and they mentioned that the servers at Google and other major search engines now consume 1% of all of the world’s electricity based on the calculations of Jonathan Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
He also estimates their consumption is increasing at 17% per year which means server farms will consume nearly 5 times as much within a decade.
Makes you appreciate the rapid growth of computers even more … and appreciate those computer companies who are only using solar power to power up their servers (I have found a few around the world that do this - mainly in the USA at present).
Until next time
Ingrid Cliff
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