As we continue to increase our usage of Data Centres via a variety of Cloud Based Services (a.k.a Cloud Computing) we consume, the impact of Data Centres on the environment is becoming more and more evident.
Should we really be using even more resources for this and as Lancaster University estimates the ‘cloud’ is responsible for between a quarter and 1.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions globally, equating to at least 100 million tonnes per year.
These three articles delve deeper into the subject and make for some interesting reading.
- MIT Press Reader — The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
- Info World — Questioning cloud’s environmental impact
- Washington Post – Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal
It’s just over fifty years (which in itself is staggering) since my wife and I returned from Hong Kong after two and half fanatics years of living in one of the most vibrant cities in the world, courtesy of the Royal Navy.
It was a great posting and as ‘they’ say, those were the good old days! However, it seems no more as The old days are no more’: Hong Kong goes quiet as security laws tighten their grip. Such a shame!
Programming languages are increasingly the heart of everything we do today, and good Programmers remain in short supply.
The latest list of top programming languages for April 2024 shows Python at the top again and amazingly, Fortran (from the late 1950’s) is still in the list at number 10!
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