Green Google Saves Energy, Money and the Environment?

Given Google receives an estimated over 1200 billion Google searches per day, estimates for the energy saving figures of using a black background for Google are in the figure of 750-3000 Megawatt hours per year. This figure does take into consideration that some monitors and display technologies use more power than others. Whilst it is proven the average CRT computer monitor will reduce environmental impact if the screen displays black instead of white, unique prevention of global warming even though the power usage is reduced, keep in mind it is still using some amount of power. What is not as obvious is that searching for a phrase in a search engine uses a lot of processing power, not just on your own computer, but on Google’s servers.

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