The trouble with big data is the huge energy bill | John Naughton

The power consumed by the internet giants’ massive server farms and the mining of the cryptocurrency are growing into a giant environmental headacheOnce upon a time, a very long time ago – 2009 in fact – there was a brief but interesting controversy about the carbon footprint of a Google search. It was kicked off by a newspaper story reporting a “calculation” of mysterious origin that suggested a single Google search generated 7 grams of CO2, which is about half of