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by wmf 6421 days ago
Speaking of electricity, at one point Google claimed that during a Web search your PC uses more energy sending the request, waiting, and displaying the results than Google uses to perform the search. So the next time you need to sort 1PB of data it may be cheaper to send it to Google. :-)
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Lol, good idea. Although I could see M$ or Yahoo! looking to make some sort of a deal like that.