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[Jan Whitaker]

At 06:23 AM 1/07/2012, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>handling 400 million queries a day based on comScore metrics, then we can
>see 1,800,000,000 (1.8 billion) watt-hours of energy being used daily just
>for basic search queries. The Google Complex itself uses the amount of
>power as 3,333 California homes.
>---

Then I'm very glad they are in California and not here!
;-)

Jan (who is watching a story on Sunday morning tv about the carbon tax)



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