Here is an interesting article that was shared by James Stanger about the amount of energy that is consumed by data centers. It is interesting that the more we move to the cloud, the more energy will be consumed. The article does mention efforts by Amazon and Google to use alternative energy for their data centers, but still a lot of work needs to be done. All our Google searches and streaming videos from Netflix and other sources is leaving a big carbon footprint.
Good conversation starter to have with your students.https://fortune.com/2019/09/18/internet-cloud-server-data-center-energy-consumption-renewable-coal
Good conversation starter to have with your students.https://fortune.com/2019/09/18/internet-cloud-server-data-center-energy-consumption-renewable-coal