Data centers in China produced 99 million metric tons of carbon last year, a new study finds. That's equivalent to 21 million cars. (hereandnow)
A hidden environmental price makes storing data in the cloud a costly convenience.
“Ironically, the phrase ‘moving everything to the cloud’ is a problem for our actual climate right now,” Johnson says. The Chinese government started a pilot program for green data centers in 2015, which Johnson says signals the country is thinking about the environmental consequences of the cloud. Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group has launched data centers powered by solar and hydroelectric power.
Computer systems heat up and need to be cooled down by air conditioning units, so putting a data center in a warm climate will require greater cooling efforts and use more energy.
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