Gmail: It’s cooler in the cloud

Posted by David Jacobowitz, Program Manager, Green Engineering and Operations (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog, the Gmail Blog, and the Google Green Blog.) Cloud computing is secure, simple, keeps you productive and saves you money. But the cloud can also save energy. A recent report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Verdantix estimates that cloud computing has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by millions of metric tons. And Jonathan Koomey, a consulting professor at Stanford who has led several studies on data center energy use, has written that for many enterprises, the cloud “is significantly more energy efficient than using in-house data centers.”