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The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
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March 1, 2024 at 5:21 PM
The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.
Reposted by Pat Nourse
i won't get in an ornithopter because it's too fucked up and all the guys in the Landsraad are laughing at me. i don't care that thing is a deathtrap
March 1, 2024 at 8:46 PM
i won't get in an ornithopter because it's too fucked up and all the guys in the Landsraad are laughing at me. i don't care that thing is a deathtrap