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Also, while we don\u2019t mind walking to work to help save the planet, the idea of giving up Google was a little absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, energy rating has become a hot topic, not just for home appliances and PCs, but for data centres too. As people increase the number of devices they have, the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), and as businesses move to the cloud, the data centres boom is being fuelled, in general, by old-fashioned coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is mounting on data centres to \u2018go green\u2019 in order to reduce their carbon footprint, explains Sean Sheehan, Wisetek CEO. A few years ago there was a study which tried to estimate the carbon footprint of doing a single Google search. 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