Up inside Iceland's green cloud
To a lot of people, cloud computing evokes an image of something clean and pristine, just hanging there in the wonderful blue sky. But cloud computing is actually quite dirty. The data centers that host the cloud use a huge amount of energy to ensure we have constant access to our email, pictures, videos and all other forms of digital files. In fact, it's said that if the Internet and the data storage that's required to keep it going were a state, it would be one of the five biggest energy consuming countries in the world. But Iceland is taking steps to reduce our collective "footprint" in the cloud.
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