Holy crap
The world’s data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Co.
Now, I’ve heard a lot about data centers using gobs of power, but this is incredible. Hopefully, knowing this beforehand will help influence the industry to become more efficient. Maybe even building new data centers in colder climates and reusing some of that heat.
In the meantime, if you use web hosting, go with a green provider, like dreamhost who buys credits to offset it’s carbon emissions.