Are Data Centers Bad for the Environment?

Data centers are responsible energy consumption for a approximately 1% of that of the world, the average power usage effectiveness is in the range of 1.4–1.6, and the associated carbon emissions account for approximately 2–4% of the global carbon emissions.

But there are new ways of mitigation this being developed.

One such solution is being developed by UMass in the CarbonFirst project – https://carbonfirst.org