A typical data center, housing servers for cloud computing, consumes 7 MWh of electricity per year. The
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A typical data center, housing servers for cloud computing, consumes 7 MWh of electricity per year. The company plans to develop five new data centers, with one each in New England, the Northwest, and the Midwest, and two in California. Calculate the increase in the company's carbon footprint due to this expansion. If all the electricity was obtained from concentrated solar power with a parabolic trough, what would be the reduction in the carbon footprint of the new data centers? If all the electricity came from nuclear light water reactors, what would be the carbon footprint? Discuss the possible side-effects and unintended harm of the solar and nuclear options.
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