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Appraising Cloud Services and Climate Change

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We’ve all got our heads stuck in the clouds somewhere. From something as straightforward as using Microsoft of Google email, or OneDrive or Dropbox file backup and sync, to systems such as Teams or Zoom for chat and collaboration, we’re using cloud services that are powered by huge data centers, and we have been doing so now for a couple of decades at least.

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Halsey, M. (2022). Appraising Cloud Services and Climate Change. In: The Green IT Guide. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8057-7_4

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