They stream entertaining videos to our smartphones, store incredible amounts of data, calculate AI algorithms, analyze language, provide web and IT services, create and manage digital money – and are well on their way to becoming one of the largest energy consumers in the world to become. become a planet. Data centers are indispensable for the networked society. But the multi-billion dollar industry is not without controversy.
According to the IT and Internet industry, we are on the threshold of an era where everything is connected in the ‘Internet of Things’ and communicates with each other via 5G networks. Network traffic, processing of collected data, and computing for complex AI algorithms are handled in data centers around the world. They are already responsible for two percent of global energy consumption and are therefore controversial. But by the end of the decade there should be seven…
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