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Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret (www.theregister.com)
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[–] fibojoly 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We have a lovely backup generator on site that turns on anytime an electrical storm is detected within 50km of our DC. That thing is something out of a cruiseship so yeah, I can imagine real huge data centers must be an order of magnitude worse.