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Major cloud providers' marketing claims about sustainability are misleading given their expanding carbon footprints and the opacity of actual emissions accounting across the sector

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"Claims by Microsoft, Amazon and Google about their clouds being ecologically friendly and sustainable are a marketing strategy. Making matters worse, we might be majorly underestimating these firms' emissions thanks to extreme opacity in the sector as well as some cloak-and-dagger maneuvering."

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