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World Service,4 mins
Is the expansion of data processing causing more CO2 emissions?
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Companies are being pressed to stop storing unwanted data, which is clogging up processing centres and adding to carbon emissions as the devices need power. Matthew Watts, the Chief Technology Evangelist with NetApp, tells the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's Russell Padmore that too much data, which will never be used again is being stored digitally. (Data Processing Centre. Getty Images.)
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