Google's Not Mucking up The Environment After All
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There was a big fuss earlier this week when The Sunday Times of London published an article claiming that every Google search was the equivalent of boiling a pot of tea. Turned out it was a tempest in a tea pot. The Times attributed this bit of profundity to a prestigious Harvard University physicist named Alex Wissner-Gross, who is working on research on the environmental impact of computing.
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It came out later in the week after everyone thought about it that this didn't add up. The Times quickly back-pedaled on story and Wissner-Gross said the writers had mis-interpreted what he said, but even though the story got it wrong, the basic premise is correct. Servers generate electricity and each time we search or perform any online activity whether Google, Twitter, Facebook, Qik, whatever we are burning electricity and that has environmental impact. That much is clear. Full Story |
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