Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧🇺🇸 on Nostr: The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data ...
Published at
2024-03-02 06:24:03Event JSON
{
"id": "a85bcddec2045f1f2a24b661bdb74ec87a529eed3dcb04dc62e38c99b702f079",
"pubkey": "25ea350188f446f797f72bdf6aa0d5e16b34bebc160c0e7c087b9df4cc4e64b4",
"created_at": 1709360643,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"ai"
],
[
"t",
"climatechange"
],
[
"t",
"climatecrisis"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.online/users/emmalbriant/statuses/112024659145414369",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/ #ai #climatechange #climatecrisis",
"sig": "b1eff2b635e4ff0b07ecec720785013843fa5d789b073a2e1ed41dc7f989eabc218412f362d40eb62e2f6822191b5e05ec4126d8b1f695c09b69513570255747"
}
