Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

GreenBiz.com (Oct 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Google's Gmail spells trouble for the U.S. Postal Service and, if you're not careful, it can be a risky place to store your data. Aside from that, Gmail is good for the rest of us -- and, importantly, for the planet. Indeed, cloud-based computing -- the way Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook and others provide you with data storage and software from their servers -- turns out to be a great way to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions... if those companies run their businesses right. That's because in computing, as in so many other industries, scale drives efficiency. Bigger is greener. (Read Full Article)

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