Ch.11 Digital Well-being, Health and the Environment Concept
Question
Why does cloud use have an environmental impact?
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Answer
Cloud services run on data centres, networks, devices, cooling, and electricity.
The cloud is someone else's infrastructure. Storage and computation still consume resources.
JRC DigComp / EPSOHQ Digital Skills DB
Deep dive
Cloud's hidden energy bill
Cloud services run on data centres, networks, devices, cooling, and electricity; thinking 'cloud' means 'no resource use' is a common mistake.
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