The cloud’s heavy toll on natural resources
The cloud’s heavy toll on natural resources  
Podcast: Marketplace Tech
Published On: Tue Aug 22 2023
Description: The thing we call “the cloud” might sound harmless, but that seemingly abstract place where the details of your digital life are stored takes a heavy toll on the environment. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, a postdoctoral researcher in the Fixing Futures training group at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, about his research on cloud data centers and their effect on the health of the planet.