RadicalAnthro , 3 months ago

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez #Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in #server farms to illustrate some of the diverse #environmental impacts of #datastorage.

"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes"

#ethnography #computing #data

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/