http://simonwillison.net/2009-01-12T15:31:16+00:00Simon Willison2009-01-12T15:31:16+00:002009-01-12T15:31:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/12/leo/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jan/12/carbon-emissions-google">Leo Hickman on the carbon cost of Googling</a></strong></p> Alex Wissner-Gross (who published the 7g/search figures) appears to be including Google’s extra capacity, so total CO2 output divided by number of searches. Google’s 0.2g/search estimate includes just the energy used by the servers processing your query. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/alex-wissner-gross">alex-wissner-gross</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/co2">co2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/leohickman">leohickman</a></p>