Tag: Carbon dioxide

Google’s Carbon Footprint

This is fascinating. I knew that data centers required massive amounts of power to run the computers and keep them cool, but I hadn’t thought of it in these terms. How much CO2 does a google search produce if a google search produces CO2? Well, Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross did the math: a typical search generates about 7g of CO2… Continue reading

My Web Hosting Service Is Green!

I am pleased to learn that the company I use to host my site has a sense of social and environmental conscience! They have calculated their total carbon footprint (no small thing running 1,300+ servers) which amounts to about 2,725 tons of CO² per year. They then did several things to offset that carbon footprint. I encourage you to read… Continue reading