Like YouTube? Enjoy Netflix? Then you’re a bad person! It’s people like you who are destroying our planet and dooming future generations! At least that’s the conclusion of a recent study regarding the impact of streaming media consumption on greenhouse gas emissions. Apparently, all those crazy cat videos and episodes of Stranger Things need to be hosted somewhere -- specifically, in massive data centers with huge electrical draws for both the servers that store the content and the cooling systems that keep them all from melting down. "But, I’m an environmentalist," you say. "I re-cycle! I bi-cycle! When I do…
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