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* The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour. | * The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour. | ||
* Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | * Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | ||
** This wiki uses the [https://beyond-notability.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Main_Page#Acknowledgements WbStack] infrastructure. WbStack uses [https://wbstack.github.io/docs/about/funding.html#infrastructure Google Cloud] as a hosting platform. Google Cloud claims to be the [https://cloud.google.com/sustainability 'cleanest cloud in industry']. We note that Google Cloud basis these claims on a combination of renewable "off-taking" and off-setting, the greenness of which is discussed in a [https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/12/digital-tech-vital-net-zero-royal-society-report/ recent report by the Royal Society (2020)]. We continue to monitor the environmental claims of Google Cloud. | |||
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