Katie Singer 'The invisible, immaterial Internet is not what it seems'
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The Efficiency of Data Centers
In more commercial environments, so like a server, for example, it would be a lower figure because servers are more intensively used. Energy efficiency actually creates, it increases use of energy and use of raw materials. So if we have a really efficient server or a really efficient smart phone, if we make one billion more of those, we are extracting a lot more ores,. We 're doing a lot more smelting. And then before they get shipped again to the end user. There's no way around it.
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