Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste heat. Some of it could […]
How’s The Metaverse Doing A Year Later? Can It Still Become A Clean Technology?
About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles exploring the possible benefits and downsides of Facebook’s Meta’s Metaverse plans. In some ways, referring to it that way isn’t fair, because Oculus (which was bought out by Facebook and became Meta) isn’t the only player in that arena. A growing number of companies were […]