How is Google bad for the environment?

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To see the contribution of carbon emissions to global warming you can open :

http://sansteknologi.blogspot.com/
 
I heard it's something about carbon emissions when someone searches for something but I'm not sure.Can Yahoo be just as bad?
 
Carrying out two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate-about the same amount of carbon dioxide-as boiling a kettle, say U.S. researchers.

A typical search produces about 7grams of CO2 compared with 15grams for a kettle.

During a Google search, several servers, which can be thousands of miles apart, compete to return the results fastest.

Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard physicist, said: 'Their primary concern is to make searches fast and that means they have a lot of extra capacity that burns energy.'
 
ooo..i didn't know that..how is this posible???

what about yahoo or msn or any other search engine..
 
It's the servers, man.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1112125/Google-searches-generate-CO2-boiling-kettle.html

......and I googled it.......oh man....we're all screwed!
 
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