Cloud computing is thriving in India despite the apprehensions expressed by various stakeholders. Google is betting on the growing cloud computing market in India with plans to double its engineering headcount (it currently has 300 engineers) in the country in the next two years, Google India’s head of engineering Peeyush Ranjan said last week. “We are optimistic about the growth of cloud activities in the country and we would be hiring hundreds more to serve our clientele who are seeing a fundamental shift towards cloud for new businesses,” he …

Now this is interesting. Harvard University physicist, Alex Wissner-Gross, has calculated environmental impact of a typical Google search query and results are not something Al Gore, famous Google fan, will appreciate. TimesOnline reports:

While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out …