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The huge carbon footprint of large-scale computing

16 Mar 2022
Taken from the March 2022 issue of Physics World.

Researchers have been able to cut their carbon footprint by jetting off to fewer international conferences, but physicists working on large-scale experiments may also have to consider the significant environmental impact of the computer power they require. Michael Allen investigates

(Courtesy: iStock/mediaphotos) Simon Portegies Zwart, an astrophysicist at Leiden University in the

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