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How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity
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A Facebook data centre in Luleå, Sweden. Credit: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty
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Nature 561, 163-166 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06610-y
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Correction 13 September 2018: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong affiliation for Eric Masanet.
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