Der Eckpfeiler

Laut Martin Varsavsky ist Google der größte Stromverbraucher der Welt. Schuld daran seien die Unmengen an Computern, die dazu benötigt werden, den Google-Bot am laufen zu halten:

These days when you Googled you saw symbols showing that Google was promoting solar and wind energy. Personally as an investor in both I support that move. But when I saw the icons I remembered a dinner with Larry Page at the Clinton Global Initiative in NYC last September when I asked him what he thought was the limits to growth of Google and much to my surprise he did not say servers, or people, but he said electricity. It turns out that Google is by now the largest owner of computers in the world and that computers are consuming more and more of the electricity that is used in the world.

Erstaunlich, und wenn es wahr ist, auch sehr beunruhigend.

Via Martin Varsavsky