[LINK] Info re webhosting and its contribution to climate change

[JanW]

At 06:18 PM 2/10/2014, jore you wrote:
>growing requirements for and cumulative impacts of
>other resources in post-peak such as oil for plastic, coltan for
>screens, copper, lead, zinc, etc etc etc; that are all required for
>keeping the machinations of such technology and the global economy going) 

There are also a slew of exotic materials in chip production as well as what used to be prolific, but is running out on Earth: helium.

You might have some luck in the studies around server farms. At one stage, the issues around aircon cooling requirements and shifting to more efficient servers (blades?) was all the talk.

And of course the ubiquitous, yet more camouflaged cell (mobile) towers. You don't hear Joe Hockey complaining about them, do we? Just wind farms.

Jan



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