Could Cloud Based Systems Save the World?

Big data needs big resources. Big resources have big costs – and not just financially.

As technologies improve and the Earth spins faster we find ourselves using and needing more resources for the ever growing amounts of data that have now become ingrained into the everyday functioning of our lives.

It doesn’t take an environmental scientist to work out that eventually these resources will more than likely eventually dry up; and if we keep demanding more instead of trying to cut down it could happen sooner than expected.

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