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Infosmog
Information technology accounts for 2 percent of world's CO2 emmissions |
Jerome Woody |
03 May 2007 |
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| Just as Steve Jobs was polishing the final draft of his defense of Apple's environmental programs, computer industry analyst firm Gartner announced to the world its findings about Global IT's carbon footprint. It's not good. As an industry, information technology accounts for 2 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, placing it in the same club as the aviation industry. The causes are numerous, including increasing power consumption, use of refrigerator-l ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, e-waste, greenhouse-gas emissions, tech (all these topics) |
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