stackyFACTSNext time you frantically Google if a hotdog is a sandwich at 2 AM, remember that you are tangibly contributing to global warming.
Next time you frantically Google if a hotdog is a sandwich at 2 AM, remember that you are tangibly contributing to global warming. Because Google's server infrastructure requires massive amounts of electricity to retrieve and rank billions of pages in milliseconds, each individual search query carries a very real, measurable carbon footprint. You are quite literally burning fossil fuels just to win a trivial argument with strangers on the internet.
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