Data centers, whose expansion is being fueled dramatically by the artificial intelligence boom, have a far bigger carbon footprint than previously estimated, according to a new study. The sprawling, power-hungry sites, used to store critical IT infrastructure like servers, are being built worldwide by companies and countries as AI applications…
The amount of waste out there like this is tragic. I could understand destroying hard drives, but the rest of the hardware?
If you saw it when we had to destroy on site it would make you cry. 60’ of servers in 2 rows and we would roll a forklift over them. The most we did was 3 sets of rows in a day.