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Author Pitron, Guillaume, author.

Title The dark cloud : how the digital world is costing the Earth / Guillaume Pitron ; translated by Bianca Jacobsohn
Published Brunswick, Victoria ; Minneapolis, Minnesota : Scribe Publications, 2023

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The digital world's environmental benefits: fiction vs. fact -- 2 Smartphones and the art of Zen -- 3 The dark matter of a digital world -- 4 Investigating a cloud -- 5 An appalling waste of electricity -- 6 Battle of the far north -- 7 Expansion of the digital universe -- 8 When robots out-pollute humans -- 9 Twenty thousand tentacles under the sea -- 10 The geopolitics of digital infrastructure -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendixes -- Notes
Summary A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2023)
Subject Technology -- Environmental aspects
Sustainable development -- Technological innovations
Internet of things -- Environmental aspects
Big data -- Environmental aspects
Artificial intelligence -- Environmental aspects
Internet & WWW industries.
Computers - Internet - General.
Computers - Social Aspects - General.
Social Science - Popular Culture.
Science / Global Warming & Climate Change.
Technology - Environmental Engineering & Technology.
Nature - Ecology.
Social Science / Technology Studies.
Technology - Social Aspects.
Business & Economics - Industries - Computer Industry.
Social Science / Media Studies.
Sustainable development -- Technological innovations.
Technology -- Environmental aspects.
Internet: general works.
Ethical & social aspects of IT.
Greenwashing and other forms of deceptive marketing.
Popular culture.
Climate change.
Media studies: internet, digital media & society.
Impact of science & technology on society.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
Applied ecology.
Information technology industries.
Communication studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781761385100
1761385100
Other Titles Enfer numérique. English