Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing Energy Use of the Internet?
More than 750 million users, 532 million kilowatt-hours of energy consumption and the attendant 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide: those are Facebook's numbers for 2011. That means, as the social networking company wrote in an August 1 Facebook post (naturally) releasing the data on energy use, that "one person's Facebook use for all of 2011 had roughly the same carbon footprint as one medium latte. Or three large bananas. Or a couple of glasses of wine." That's 269 grams of CO2 per "active user," and another invisible impact of the computing cloud.
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