谷歌首次披露碳排放量高达150万吨相当于整个联合国。
译者 云来如此 Google’s carbon footprint is on a par with the United Nations, the internet giant revealed on Thursday as it published its energy usage for the first time. 谷歌的碳排放量相当于整个联合国,这个互联网巨头在星期二首次公布了它的能源消耗情况。 Google says that it emits 1.5m tonnes of carbon annually but claims that its data centres consume 50% less energy than the industry average. The emissions are slightly higher than the country of Laos in south-east Asia and equivalent to the UN’s operational footprint. 谷歌发布消息称虽然它每年排放达150万吨的二氧化碳,但跟行业平均水平相比,数据中心仍然节省了50%的能量。谷歌的排放量比东南亚国家老挝稍微高一点,与联合国的所有运行部门的碳排放量相等。 The company said that many of its “cloud-based” services for businesses, such as its popular Gmail system, can be up to 80 times less polluting than traditional alternatives, which require companies to operate their own, potentially more inefficient servers. 公司宣称,很多“云计算”商业服务,比如众所周知的Gmail系统,比传统的类似项目——需要公司自己运行的,很大程度上无效率的——最高可少排放80%的二氧化碳。 Google has made strides in reducing the energy use of its products and increasing the proportion of electricity it purchases from renewable sources.
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