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Does Google have the biggest IT carbon footprint on the planet?

techworld.com — It is possible that Google, because of its 500,000+ servers and massive ranks of disk drive arrays, spread across 40 to 60 datacentres around the globe, is the largest IT producer of carbon emissions on Earth, through emissions from utility companies supplying its energy requirements; ruling out chip foundry companies such as Intel, of course.

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