Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Race to Be the Greenest Tech Company

Google is way green. The company is so efficient that it's not just not that bad for the environment it's actually good for the earth. At least that's what the company claims in a recent blog post outlining its energy consumption. "And, because we’ve been a carbon-neutral company since 2007, even that small amount of energy is offset completely, so the carbon footprint of your life on Google is zero." Google took criticism for their energy hungry data centers in 2009, tarnishing the company's 'can-do-no-evil' charm. Since then, it has tried really hard to pull itself back into the green. And Google's not the only Internet companies that feeds off electricity--they all do it. Using the Internet comes with an environmental price tag, after the world figured that out, big tech companies aspired to look greener than the next. Thus began the race to become the greenest tech company.

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