Clearly anthropology is not a good way to get the whole picture used for decisions. Here is the article: <a href="https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material/release/1" rel="nofollow">https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material/releas...</a><p>Any person really interested of the cost for the society would have tried to calculate the ecological "opportunity cost" and used counterfactual scenarios try to figure figure out if the cost of computation and the cloud actually decrease ecological burden.