“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. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”
@parismarx Storage and processing power are increasing exponentially, but I'm afraid that use is increasing still more quickly. Maybe taxing data center use (won't ever happen) would incentive efficiency.
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Since o read this post this morning, I’ve been thinking about this all day. We’ve all become data hoarders (myself included), storing in the cloud for “eternity” vast quantities of data, billions of photos & videos, endless recaps of minutiae we’ve posted online (which had no value to begin with) — none of which we’ll EVER access and most of which we don’t even remember.
One more way we ALL desecrate Earth’s resources thoughtlessly.
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