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EcoDataCenter
- The World ' s Greenest Data Center
“A POWER HUNGRY INDUSTRY AND A SOCIETY TRYING TO UNDERGO THE PROCESS OF ELECTRIFICATION AND DECOUPLING FROM FOSSIL FUELS DON ' T GO HAND-IN-HAND ”
LARS SCHEDIN SENIOR ADVISOR , ECODATACENTER
It ’ s not only rare that executives from within the industry acknowledge the data centre industry ’ s broader impact on their utility grids , buying up disproportionate amounts of green power to the detriment of residential areas and other industries , but it ’ s virtually unheard of to hear someone broach the idea that using “ renewable power ” and “ green energy ” to make data centres “ climate neutral ” might not be the sustainability panacea it ’ s sold as .
“ My mission for this year is to get people to understand that there is no such thing as climate neutral renewable power production . Even renewable power comes with embedded carbon . There is no such thing as climate neutral ,” he says . “ The ways that people are getting to count themselves as " climate neutral " are by doing something with their excess heat , or by purchasing climate
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