Black Google Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year

by admin January 21, 2007 at 11:14 am

All white web page use about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. See what happens when you do the math on Google’s home page

Ever noticed how pulling up www.google.com will make a dark room light up at night?

An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. A blogger has recently done the math to see what kind of energy could be saved if Google changed it’s website from white to a black format.

Full story: DigitalJournal.