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I was simply shocked to read that Google as a whole consumes as much as a whole metropolis. The fact that they're going green, is awesome on their part..!
by rimher 10y ago
I was simply shocked to read that Google as a whole consumes as much as a whole metropolis. The fact that they're going green, is awesome on their part..!
- JonFish85 10y ago"I was simply shocked to read that Google as a whole consumes as much as a whole metropolis." Considering that they employ ~70k people, plus the hardware to run their business, that sounds about right.
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- jonknee 10y agoConsidering they provide significant computing resources for the entire world it's not that surprising.
- sp332 10y agoMicrosoft's new US-East datacenter expansion will be over a mile long.
- user5994461 10y agoI am equally surprised... that they only consume one metropolis. I'd expect much more than that given the size of their operations. i.e. just running the entire world.
- walshemj 10y agoWhy datacentres are not massive consumers compared to some energy consumers my first job had a single experiment that had from memory 2x .25 MW pumps - and blew out the electricity supply for Cranfield uni when we did the first test run.