Dr. Conca suggests maybe, but it is going to be impossible without using all the low-carbon energy sources we have available. Information and communication technologies require a lot of power. The human online population topped 3 billion in 2014, but should exceed 7 billion by 2020.
Along with this increase, comes a parallel increase in the online carbon footprint. So large electricity-consuming data centers like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple are looking for reliable sources of power that do not emit much carbon. And the answer is nuclear power, especially from the SMRs now on the fast track for development.
Google, for example, made a major investment in wind and solar energy over a five-year period to demonstrate that being 100% renewable could be cost-effective, an intense effort known as RE
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