Google has advised that an average search uses 0.3 watt-hours of electricity. This is equivelant to leaving a 30 watt light on for one hour. Google estimates that there are a billion searches a day, therefore 12.5 million watts of power consumed.

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ouch, that’s really shocking … going have to cut back on my searches 😦
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And just think, I spend about fourteen hours a day pointlessly googling
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I think we all do, which is why I was horrified when I discovered this fact
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That’s a a lot!
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It sure is
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🧐
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Does it depend upon what you are searching for?
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Nope
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Good! I’ll do all my searches at once with a bunch of “or”s…
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Well done Charles
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