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The inherent nature of the mobile Internet, a key feature of the
emergent Cloud architecture, requires far more energy than
do wired networks. . . . Trends now promise faster, not slower,
growth in ICT energy use. (Mills 2013, from the report “The
Cloud Begins with Coal”)
SECRETS ARE LIES
SHARING IS CARING
PRIVACY IS THEFT (Eggers 2013, 303)
Cloud computing is nothing more than the next step in outsourc-
ing your IT operations. (McKendrick 2013c)
There is no quicker way to descend from the cloud than to look in on an
old-fashioned, down-to-earth dispute about money and power. Such was
the case when the veteran New York Times reporter James Glanz, known
for his work as Baghdad bureau chief and for an investigative history of
the World Trade Center (Glanz and Lipton 2004), arrived in the town
of Quincy in central Washington to do a story on cloud-computing data
centers. There he found a dispute between a computer giant and a small
power company. Now, this was no ordinary big computer company—it
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