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Larry Dignan at ZDNet blogged today about the rapidly growing impact of the IT industry on global emissions.

Information and communication technology accounts for 2 percent of global CO2 emissions, according to Gartner. That’s the equivalent of the airline industry.

This amazes me.  As a fairly frequent traveler, I cringe a little everytime I see the cloud of nasty trailing a plane as it takes off the runway.  I’ve always assumed that the airlines generated a tremendous amount of pollution.  I would never have thought that servers running in closets and farms all around the world were just as bad.  It shows you how quickly the net effect of something can be - and yes, that was a deliberate pun.

Source: ZDNet