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by draaglom
1768 days ago
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The headline figure of "3.8% of global carbon emissions" is currently un-sourced - so I'm very curious to see what it includes. IEA claims datacenters account for 1% of electricity demand and data networks are another 1%: IEA (2020), Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/data-centres-and-data-transmissi... Now, those figures are _electricity_ not _carbon emissions_ - so perhaps the 3.8% figure includes e.g. datacenter construction emissions, or emissions related to producing servers and networking equipment? |
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