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Data Center Electricity Use IV: Unrealistic Emissions Targets?
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Large-scale, dynamic social and economic change is often more difficult, incremental, and slower than anticipated. Consider James Watt and Matthew Boulton in Birmingham in 1776, having invented and refined the double-acting steam engine. Watt patented the invention that year, a breakthrough that would ultimately become a hallmark of the British Industrial Revolution and propel its global spread. Yet it wasn’t until the 1840s that their innovation truly transformed industry.