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Cleaning up on dirty data

First published in Good magazine

The online world somehow always looks clean and finished, like it exists in some kind of Neverland that is conjured into existence, untroubled by such old-world concerns as pollution and energy depletion.

But of course this is not the case. Greenpeace estimates the huge barns full of computer servers that make our Gmail accounts ping and let us flog jumpers to each other on TradeMe now suck in up to two percent of the world’s entire energy demand. And it’s growing at a rate of 12 percent a year.

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