The Carbon Footprint of Storing Data

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Digital age has changed the way we keep things - these are not 'things' anymore, we name them data. Greenpeace has determined that the Information Communication Technologies are responsible for 10% of the world's energy demand. What you think is on your cloud is actually in someone else's hard drive and this hard drive needs maintenance energy, especially for cooling. Having photos on a cloud is not free - at least, it is not for the environment. This is the case of climate change due to cloud computing - it is our actions that fuel it.