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The environmental harm caused by data centres comes from how the industry chooses to build them, not from anything inherent to computing infrastructure.

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infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

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  1. Ketan Joshi

    Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo

    there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.

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