How cloud computing impacts the environment

Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by hereme888 on Monday December 16, 2019 @08:39AM (#21802887)

Data centers are more efficient than people managing that same amount in their own homes or office.

Also, "1%....might come from burning coal....if it did....it would result in 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2". "Might"? "If" it did? How is that unreal theory useful to anyone?

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Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by mahic on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:12PM (#21807255)

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the article.

I'm not sure which part of it you believe is unreal, but I'll try to clarify; - the 1% electricity consumption of total world consumption is real - based on research done by IEA (https://www.iea.org/reports/tracking-buildings/data-centres-...) - The calculation on the effect of generating 200TWh of electricity from burning coal is 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 emission is real - the link in the article points to the estimation - the fact that most of world's energy comes from fossile sources is real. While it's not 100% from coal, 67% is from fossile fuels; https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-information-2019

And some countries are worse than others. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/10/asia/china-data-center-ca...

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Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by hereme888 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:20PM (#21821760)

Thanks for clarifying

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