Ordering a product from Amazon.com is probably better for the environment than driving to the mall. Videoconferencing certainly beats hopping on an airplane. Google calculates that it can process 10,000 searches for the same amount of energy as one five-mile car trip. But while information technology may be greener than the things it replaces, the carbon footprint of the world's data centers and computer networks is growing so fast that it already rivals that of the aviation industry, according to past studies.
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Author: Evan I. Schwartz
