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[–] revmoo 2 points (+2|-0)

Utter bollocks. Market forces already push data centers to regions with renewable energy without any intervention from regulators. The handful of data centers in places with pricey energy are there for latency needs and are not going to have any plausible effects on Earth's climate. This article and its premise is trash.

[–] smallpond [OP] -1 points (+1|-2)

Andrae's calculations, published in the International Journal of Green Technology, suggest data centres could more than double their power demands over the next decade. He projects computing will gobble up 11 per cent of global energy by 2030 and cloud-based services will represent a sizeable proportion of that.

Skyrocketing energy demand at a time when greater energy efficiency is needed is a big problem.