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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by paulsutter on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:57PM (#28673157)
Much more direct to put a carbon tax on the energy used to power the datacenters. Some datacenters are on hydro power, and some are on coal. Penalize the coal

Charging for bandwidth doesn't align incentives to solve the problem

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by tombert on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:41PM (#28673720)
I agree, it seems like an energy tax would be more directly addressing the environmental impact, and the cloud services would in turn be forced to raise their prices to a something more accurately reflecting the cost of cleanup.
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