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Following that logic - don't use cloud computing. Data centres have higher carbon footprint than the airline industry
by little_airport 7y ago
Following that logic - don't use cloud computing. Data centres have higher carbon footprint than the airline industry
- shoo 7y agowell... maybe. what's the marginal impact of taking a flight as an individual, versus the marginal impact of doing a cloud-computing-thing as an individual?
- dreen 7y agoThat is a valid point, but one source of carbon is not equal to another. Data centres use electricity and the biggest cloud computing providers are making efforts to use more green energy for their servers. Airplanes, on the other hand, burn liquid fuel directly high up in the atmosphere, and little effort is expended by the industry to change this. That is the big difference.