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McAfee study ‘Carbon Footprint of Spam’ says global spam generates 17 million tons of CO2 yearly

Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:04 By GSerrano

A study by McAfee entitled ‘Carbon Footprint of Spam’ reveals that the annual global energy used up by spam has reached a total of 33 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). All this power has been needed to transmit, process, and filter spam that has, in turn, reached a generation of 62 trillion [...]

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