Impacts of Emerging Technology · Impacts of Computing
Environmental Sustainability in Tech
Investigating the lifecycle of hardware and the energy consumption of data centers.
Key Questions
- 1What is the environmental cost of our increasing demand for cloud computing?
- 2How can we design hardware to be more circular and less wasteful?
- 3Does technology solve more environmental problems than it creates?
ACARA Content Descriptions
AC9DT10K03
Year: Year 9
Subject: Technologies
Unit: Impacts of Emerging Technology
Period: Impacts of Computing
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