megan@elon (Megan Squire)

Dr. Megan Squire's blog -- Elon University, Department of Computing Sciences

Monday, January 12, 2009

The strange cost of a google search

Researcher Claims 2 Google Searches Produces the Same C02 as boiling water for some tea.

Google disputes these figures. (More at the link.)

I guess the bottom line here is that the energy used to run these machines is not cheap, and is not without cost.