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Episode: Heat growing on data centre giants to reduce emissions to comply with sustainability reporting
Description: When it comes to the massive challenge of cutting carbon emissions, we usually hear about big offenders like fossil fuel intensive industries and dirty coal-fired power stations.
But what about your office or home computer and daily necessities like the "cloud" where so much data is stored these days?
A report from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS Sydney and US tech company Pure Storage says data centres that are now critical to the global economy also create a growing share of emissions.