The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
Slate has put together an amazing interactive map illustrating the 5 million jobs that have been lost since the start of the economic meltdown. The immediate image it brings to mind is a fallout map after a nuclear attack.
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