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| Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020        |
|   from the it’s-all-that-smut-in-the-wires dept.                   |
|   posted by timothy on Saturday May 03, @23:25 (Earth)             |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/04/024251 |
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[0]Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, writes with a link to a New York
Times story on a source of pollution that doesn’t leave contrails: “The
world’s [1]data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as
a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey &
Co. … [C]omputer servers are used at only 6 percent of their capacity
on average, while data center facilities as a whole are used at 56
percent of peak performance.” Data centers, though, might have [2]more
options [3]for going green than airlines do, given present technology.

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/04/024251

Links:
0. http://www.dionysius.com/
1. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/data-centers-are-becoming-big-polluters-study-finds/
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1711254&tid=232
3. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/17/0129231&tid=232