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Originally Posted by nboshart
It's true, there's a large impact, but as I was typing this post, I remembered the impact of pulp mills. Anyone know of a direct study that's been done?
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You can start with
this one.
(There's another, more recent one bouncing around this site somewhere, but I've misplaced it.)
Overall, when you compare the energy and resources involved in building and maintaining a datafarm, and the energy and resources involved in producing paper from trees, printing, shipping and distribution, electronic systems come out way on top by virtue of their vastly superior capacity.