The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

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Permacomputing@slrpnk.netEnglish · 8 months ago

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

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