How the Environment is Impacted by Storing Massive Amounts of Data
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Edward Snowden’s leak about the NSA Prism program got us thinking about the enormous amount of space and energy required to store digital data these days.
Marco Werman speak with Jon Koomey, who studies energy policy at Stanford University.
Koomey discusses the environmental implications of storing all the data in our digital lives.
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