Greenhouse gas emissions from research damage climate
What is science worth? For many researchers, the answer is “priceless.” It's not just that science has provided the basis for modern life through sanitation and energy and electricity and telecommunications or that technology gives us useful things. It's that science deepens our understanding of the world around us in a way the transcends material benefits.
In a recent case study of computer science, Steven Gonzalez Monserrate—a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—argues that the environmental costs of this research field, particularly computer cloud storage and data centers, are huge and rising. The cloud, he contends, is a “carbonivore”: a single data center can use the same amount of electricity as 50,000 homes. The entire cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the entire airline industry.
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