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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by ed_balls on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:18PM (#18190082)
> Cloud/Data Centres emit around 2% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Is it just from electricity or the total operation? What about manufacturing and hardware replacements/maintenance? Is significant?

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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? by pauldjohnston on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:37AM (#18191590)
So it is relatively difficult to get exact data and all we can really get from the information supplied is electricity usage. That, plus the mix of electricity in the Data Centre location gives an approximation (again, it's an educated guess) of carbon emissions related to a site. Efficiencies are actually an irrelevance due to the rapid increase in usage swallowing up any gains caused by efficiencies.

Oh and the 2% from Data Centres is a conservative estimate. It's probably higher. We simply don't have the data because it's not required to share it.

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