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Green has been very, very good to Google. That’s the theme of Google’s new Web site on data center efficiency. On the site, Google explains how the cost of the IT infrastructure that powers its search engine and other applications is lower than the industry average. Google uses bare-bones parts in its servers and recycles water to meet its green IT goals.

Google is very coy about what exactly makes up its infrastructure. For example, ask how many servers the company has or whose gear its running, and you’ll get sly smiles.

Google doesn’t want us to know how many commodity servers it has in its dozens of data centers all over the world, but now that green is officially the new “good,” the company has created a Web site that details in general, and even with some basic formulas, how the company’s servers and data centers are more power-efficient than those fueled by others.

Check out this article talking about how Google uses its IT with the environment in mind. The more organizations talk about their issues and their achievements/resolutions, the more we can achieve from the technology, the more we can see it as an enabler to business, an investment than a cost, a capex or opex expenditure. Let’s not forget with technology (as with anything else dad would say) you get what you put in.

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