“It’s costing us the equivalent of maintaining the airline industry for data we don’t even use,” says Andrew Choi, a US environmental governance specialist. And for those who think you’re erasing email when you empty the trash, you probably aren’t. But eventually there may not be enough renewable energy to satisfy the industry’s demand. Bresniker says the tech industry is “flying blind” when it comes to the true cost of storing data. “We don’t really understand what the footprint is,” he says.

Source: Bangkok Post January 25, 2020 11:48 UTC