How green is your e-mail?
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If a single e-mail has an environmental toll, imagine the carbon footprint of an entire website. That would probably be calculated on the basis of the total power usage of its visitors' computers, energy consumed to upload the content and the electricity consumed by the servers that store all the data. Technology-users generally don't tend to give a thought to online data storage equipment. For most of us digital files exist in a limbo. However, all storage – for your Hotmail account, for example – uses a significant amount of energy
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