{"id":1613,"date":"2010-08-22T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.plunify.com\/en\/2010\/08\/22\/how-green-is-cloud-computing\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T02:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:23:24","slug":"how-green-is-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.plunify.com\/en\/2010\/08\/22\/how-green-is-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"How green is cloud computing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits touted by Cloud Computing advocates is that besides monetary gains through economies of scale, there are also benefits for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Came across an article by Reuven Cohen, a cloud computing evangelist, that tries to quantify just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticvapor.com\/2009\/12\/is-cloud-computing-actually.html\">how green the cloud is<\/a>. Data seems hard to obtain at this moment, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting anecdote is that apparently a city in Finland uses generated energy from data centers to heat homes.<\/p>\n<p>Intuitively there's a ring of truth but it's so very important to have numbers to back it up.<br \/>James Urquhart, a CNET columnist, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-19413_3-10428065-240.html\">commented<\/a> on Cohen's article with some optimism.<\/p>\n<p>\"So, in a sense, the 'greenness' of cloud computing is a kind of Schroedinger's box problem today, in which we won't know the actual savings to the environment until someone actually observes--or measures--it,\" he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>It would be great if Amazon or another cloud provider publishes a bit of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits touted by Cloud Computing advocates is that besides monetary gains through economies of scale, there are also benefits for the environment. 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