Marie VC, PhD<p>"The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud" <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/cloudanthro" class="u-url mention">@<span>cloudanthro</span></a></span> </p><p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the</span><span class="invisible">-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DataCenterLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataCenterLife</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataCenter</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cloud</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TheWeightOfOurData" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheWeightOfOurData</span></a></p>