The BBC and the Sunday Times Of London said : Two search requests on the internet website Google produce "as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle", according to a Harvard University academic.
The Harvard academic argues that theses carbon emissions come from electricity used by the computer terminal and by large data centers that Google operates around the world.
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Alex Wissner-Gross says : “Our work has nothing to do with Google. Our focus was exclusively on the Web overall, and we found that it takes on average about 20 milligrams of CO2 per second to visit a Web site.”
