Disappointing article in Science about "greening" the Internet
In an article in a recent issue of Science, Diego Reforgiato Recupero discussed some aspects of reducing the environmental impact of the Internet, but muddled some key concepts, ignored others, and generally made a hash of things. It’s disappointing because those of us working on this issue for decades have tried at different points to publish much better articles on this topic in Science, to no avail. They also refused to publish a corrective letter that I and other colleagues at LBNL, Northwestern, and the University of South Florida wrote, so we posted it here (it may appear in shortened form as an online comment to the article, but the link gives the full letter with all citations).
Stay tuned for our article forthcoming in Nature Climate Change, which deals with the issues around reducing greenhouse gas emissions from data centers (one important part of the Internet) in a much more sensible way.
Recupero, Diego Reforgiato. 2013. “Toward a Green Internet." Science. vol. 339, no. 6127. March 29, 2013. pp. 1533-1534. [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6127/1533.short]
