Katie Singer 'The invisible, immaterial Internet is not what it seems'
The Human Centered Design Podcast (Premium)
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Data Centers Are Not Accountable for Servers
In many of their sustainability or renewab accounting models, they don't account for servers. A a server can create at least one ton of c o two during its manufacture. Servers can be very intense electronics in manufacturing. And also, i've heard, from some one who worked in a data centre, that they would replace the servers every three or at most four years. Sometimes, what its not uncommon, they will actually destroy those perfectly working servers. They'll shred them for security reasons and to protect the dead.
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