2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ Most people don't appreciate that the computer on your desk is contributing to global warming and that if its electricity comes from a coal power plant it produces as much C02 as a sports utility vehicle. ”
      By Bill St. Arnaud

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  1. Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?

    news.myjoyonline.com (Jul 12 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

    1. Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce? Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article. How green is your website? Calculating all the factors involved in a website can be tricky. How green is your website? Calculating all the factors involved in a website can be tricky. Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more. This may not seem like a lot: "But in aggregate, if you consider all the people visiting a web site and then all the seconds that each of them spends on it, it turns out to be a large number," says Dr ... (Read Full Article)

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