Anew studyshows that social media sites have a huge carbon footprint.
“But, facilities are often built with long-term power purchase agreements in place for non-renewable energy.
A hugely popular site with hyper-efficient data centers might still create more atmospheric pollution than an inefficient-yet-unpopular service.
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Still, the numbers are interesting.
Keep Cool
Data centers burn a lot of power.
You’re running bank upon bank of computers, all of which need to be kept cool.
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“Data centers need 99.99% uptime reliability.
What Can You Do?
The most significant factor, then, might be momentum.
It takes time to change to renewable power, and tech industry behemoths are no different.
