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The cost of data

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The Environmental Impact of Data Centres

Stephen Gonzalez Moncerati is an anthropologist and PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He's an expert on data centres and he tells me more about them. They are where all of the information that we proliferate online is stored, says Stephen. And they are also the remote computing power for many of the applications that we use - including Zoom.

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