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Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020

Posted by timothy on from the it's-all-that-smut-in-the-wires dept.

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, writes with a link to a New York Times story on a source of pollution that doesn't leave contrails: "The world's data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Co. ... [C]omputer servers are used at only 6 percent of their capacity on average, while data center facilities as a whole are used at 56 percent of peak performance." Data centers, though, might have more options for going green than airlines do, given present technology.

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  1. Carbon dioxide IS green by FredThompson · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Carbon dioxide is what plants respirate. You exhale it.