You’ve heard about the Foxconn factory in China where your iPad is assembled. But have you ever considered the energy required to store your e-mails, photos, and videos in the cloud?
As worldwide demand for data storage skyrockets, so do the power needs of the servers where all our digital archives live. While some companies (like Facebook) have made great progress in ditching dirty fossil-fuel energy for cleaner renewables, a few internet giants lag far behind.
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