The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
Needless to say, they're a lot more than what's being discussed in "serious" policy circles. From The Guardian and Vox EU.
And one more article on geoengineering. One "entrepreneurial" company actually claims to have found out how to harness "dark matter". Sometimes you just want to cry.
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