SciTech

Data centres and the environmental impact of our online world

Although online communication and data storage is better environmentally than its paper alternative, Aoife Kiernan outlines that data centres and internet usage still use a huge amount of resources

As we move to an increasingly online life, the environmental impact of increased internet usage often goes unnoticed. We use our laptops and phones, connected wirelessly to the internet with such ease, often not realising the large amount of infrastructure