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Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo... by dfgdghdf on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:22AM (#24514989)
We might end up with a Jevons paradox. Remember that clean energy is not (usually) carbon-zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo... by ComputerGuru on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:25AM (#24515011)
Not might, rather certainly. Which is perfectly fine if the resource consumed is in near infinite abundance (nuclear or solar energy).
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