Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is studying the ecological impacts of computers and the cloud. In an excerpt for MIT Press, he says that "The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes."
For April 2024, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine green IT and sustainable computing.
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