‘Data centre emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?’

But never mind. Once we’ve shifted the rest of our reality into the cloud, we won’t be needing the real world, will we. Will we?

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}