Power, Pollution and the Internet

In processing a staggering amount of Internet activity, data centers waste vast amounts of energy, belying the information industry’s image of eco-friendliness.

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September 23, 2012 by Uncategorized 4

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  1. Anonymous says:
    September 24, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Responsibility
    Everyone reading this is accessing the Internet. What responsibility does the average Internet user have to make sure that the Internet is not an environmental nightmare?

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  2. Anonymous says:
    September 24, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    Well theres a couple of things you might do
    Act your life as best as you can with your environmental footprint and hope that the businesses providing these services for free (and in fact making money from advertising or your personal date) do something to compensate/balance out the environmental costs of providing the services.

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    • Anonymous says:
      September 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm

      Free
      >>hope that the businesses providing these services for free (and in fact making money from advertising or your personal date) do something to compensate/balance out the environmental costs of providing the services

      Why just companies like Google? How about all the library data vendors. Ebsco, Lexis, etc… all have server farms or lease from server farms. This is one way libraries can have an impact. Do the databases you subscribe to run on servers that are environmentally friendly? Is there such a thing?

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  3. Anonymous says:
    September 25, 2012 at 8:47 am

    Yep all businesses you use.
    Yep all businesses you use. The thing about Google is the scale of usage compared to any other company which is why I used it as the example 🙂

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