Green data centres can take the heat

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It isn't solar panels and wind turbines that are making data centres greener, but technology enabling servers to run reliably at higher temperatures, says Graeme Burton

The world is being submerged in "greenwash": most notably in the form of solar panels that harvest more in subsidies than they generate in electricity and wind turbines that barely generate enough ...

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