sustainability
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The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
The Cloud Next Door (Ngata et al.) is a short and relatively accessible paper (especially by academic standards) authored by an MIT undergraduate, examining the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of data centres on local communities. Most discourse on data centres focuses on global or systemic effects: energy consumption, water use, and emissions. Far less attention is…
Brian Grellmann 