Google, Data Centers Using Less Power than Expected

A new study says that less than one percent of the electricity used by data centers worldwide was consumed by Google. Impressive, I would have thought the search giant would require its own nuclear power plant.

According to a study by Jonathan Koomey, a consulting professor at Stanford and a climate and energy researcher, data center energy use in the last five years rose only about 56% vs. doubling in the period between 2000 and 2005. And in the U.S., it rose only 36% instead of doubling. Electricity used in global data centers in 2010 accounted for between 1.1% and 1.5% of total electricity use, the Koomey study found. For the U.S. that number was between 1.7 and 2.2%.

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