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Of the web. in fact, well overfive billion people were estimated to have used the internet last year. that's around two thirds of the world's population. and as you can see, the trend is only heading in one direction. but this cloud revolution comes with a carbon cost. these data centres, they require vast amounts of power to cool the heat created by churning those gazillions of ones and zeros. collectively, in 2021, they used around 1% of the entire global electricity demand, which may sound relatively small — but let's put it in perspective. each one of these large facilities uses around t...

Of the world's population. and as you can see, the trend is only heading in one direction. but this cloud revolution comes with a carbon cost. these data centres, they require vast amounts of power to cool the heat created by churning those gazillions of ones and zeros. collectively, in 2021, they used around 1% of the entire global electricity demand, which may sound relatively small — but let's put it in perspective. each one of these large facilities uses around the same amount of electricity needed to power over 80,000 homes. and all of this is adding up. it's been estimated that the car...

People were estimated to have used the internet last year. that's around two thirds of the world's population. and as you can see, the trend is only heading in one direction. but this cloud revolution comes with a carbon cost. these data centres, they require vast amounts of power to cool the heat created by churning those gazillions of ones and zeros collectively. in 2021, they used around 1% of the entire global electricity demand, which may sound relatively small. but let's put it in perspective. each one of these large facilities uses around the same amount of electricity needed to power o...

And as you can see, the trend is only heading in one direction. but this cloud revolution comes with a carbon cost. these data centres, they require vast amounts of power to cool the heat created by churning those gazillions of ones and zeros, collectively, in 2021, they used around i% of the entire global electricity demand, which may sound relatively small — but let's put it in perspective. each one of these large facilities uses around the same amount of electricity needed to power over 80,000 homes. and all of this is adding up. it's been estimated that the carbon footprint of our gadget...

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