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Google's Juicy Addiction: Cheap Electric

Not-so-green tech giants show insatiable appetite for power

By Laila Weir,  Newser User

Posted Feb 18, 2008 5:04 PM CST

(Newser) – No industrial smokestacks rise from that cute Google logo, but each click of the search button takes an environmental toll, Harper's reports. Google and its competitors are guzzling electricity to power ever-larger server complexes, and a renewable-energy initiative is more about making amends than benevolence....   Read full story »

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