Data centers in Va. and elsewhere have major carbon footprint, report says - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/data-centers-in-va-and-elsewhere-have-major-carbon-footprint-report-says/2012/04/17/gIQAd4t3NT_story.html
In 2007 data centers and mobile communications used 623 billion kilowatt hours of electricity; put another way, if the industry were a country, it would rank fifth in the world in terms of electricity demand, behind the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.
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