Google is a Electricity Hog.

[Royale]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/t...ctricity-output-of-its-data-centers.html?_r=1

Every time a person runs a Google search, watches a YouTube video or sends a message through Gmail, the company’s data centers full of computers use electricity. Those data centers around the world continuously draw almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant.

Maybe in next 10 to 15 years, they will need to build their own nuclear plant to feed their millions and millions servers. Just kidding.

I know they have their servers around the world.

 

[Jiro]

wow that's it? much less than I thought.

 

[Reba]

This is what Google's Data Center (down the road from me) does in Berkeley County, SC:

Gas-based electricity: Berkeley County landfill turning methane into power | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment

 

[VamPyroX]

wow that's it? much less than I thought.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Everyone is using the internet nowadays. Compared to what everyone is using for other things, the use from using internet doesn't really sound that high.

 

[netrox]

Didn't google want to build power plants?