The Paris climate talks just concluded, with at least one mainstream media source hailing the resulting agreement as “the world’s greatest diplomatic success.” Back home, aside from those married to the issue, we hardly noticed, especially those of us in the technology industry. Life continued as normal, we drove to work and back home in our SUVs, spent the evening engaged in some form of electronic entertainment and then went to bed in our climate-controlled homes, while miles away our companies’ data centers hummed through the night, powering the Web for millions of night owls.

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