"In the United States, it’s estimated that server farms, which house Internet, business and telecommunications systems and store the bulk of our data, consume close to 3 percent of our national power supply. Worldwide, they use more power annually than Sweden"It may be convenient to be able to share messages and information in several different ways: Twitter, Facebook, HootSuite, Diigo, TweetDeck, Evernote, Google Docs, Google Sites, etc., but is it really necessary to use all of these applications at once?
After reading the NYT Op-Ed, it makes me want to be a little more conscientious when thinking about which tools to use, apps to download, photos to post to FB, etc. That information has to go somewhere and live long after I'll really be needing it.
