Other industries have their own poor stories on energy efficiency and waste that simply aren't discussed in the mainstream.
The Economist has rumbled one of them:
The internet could become as ungreen as aviation. A self-serving solution beckons
Computing's environmental cost | Buy our stuff, save the planet | The Economist
More data, more disagreement on counting/accounting:
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Carbon cost' of Google revealed
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