Google showed how much energy the company's cloud services consume.

Google has decided to show how "green" the company's cloud services are. For this, visual examples of energy consumption per user were presented. It is clear that such a populist approach may not be entirely objective, but still, the information may be interesting for many representatives of the community.

So, the company representatives showed how much energy the search service of Google, YouTube, Gmail and other services consume.
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The total amount of energy the company spends on all its services per user is less than the amount of energy consumed by the incandescent lamp for three hours (in fact, the original talked about “turned on light left for three hours” - probably still talking about one light bulb). In addition, representatives of the corporation are reminded that Google was recognized as a carbon-neutral company, neutralizing carbon emissions into the atmosphere in various ways (both technological and compensatory).

As for the search service of the corporation, the processing of 100 search queries made by the user requires as much energy as is needed to operate a 60-watt incandescent lamp for 28 minutes.

Three days of continuous streaming video, one video, requires as much energy as is spent on creating one DVD disc.

A year of Gmail per user requires less energy than it takes to drink a bottle of wine, write a message, pack it in a bottle and throw it into the ocean.

In order to achieve significant success in the issue of energy conservation, the company worked in this direction for more than 10 years. As one of the company's executives put it, energy saving was an obsession for the company all these 10 years. As a result, servers with low energy consumption were created. A single Google data center consumes half the energy of a conventional data center.

The corporation invests in green technologies and new types of power plants. The company's investments have already helped get 1.7 gigawatts of green energy. So much energy is required to supply 350 thousand households. In addition, it is more than required to ensure the operation of all data centers of the company.

Via yahoo