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— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — 英语翻译第三次 Whats the carbon footprint of the internet?  2010.8.12  互联网的碳足迹  The internet releases around 300m tonnes of CO2 a year – as much as all the coal, oil and gas burned in Turkey or Poland, or more than half of the fossil fuels burned in the UK.  互联网每年释放大约3亿吨的二氧化碳-相当于土耳其或波兰一年煤、石油和天然气的释放量，或超过英国化石燃料燃烧释放的一半。  All carbon footprints are hard or impossible to pin down accurately, but the internet is a particularly complex case. This isnt just due to the fact that the net consists of millions or even billions of machines owned by countless people and companies. Theres also another problem: even if we knew exactly how much energy all these devices consumed (which we dont), we still wouldnt know how much of that energy was spent on offline jobs (such as creating documents in Microsoft Office) and how much was spent on online jobs (such as emailing those documents to a friend or colleague).  所有的碳足迹很难并且不可能确切统计，并且互联网是一个特别复杂的情况。这不仅仅是因为有这样一个现实，既―网‖是由百万计甚至亿万记得及其构成被无数的个人或公司拥有。并且有另外的问题：就算我们精确知道这些设备的能源消耗（其中我们不知道），我们也不能知道我们在离线工作（如在微软办公软件编辑文档）和在线工作（如把这些文档发给朋友或同事）耗费了多少能量  pin down 确定；使受约束；阻止  countless [?ka?ntl?s] adj.无数的，多得数不清的；恒河沙数；指不胜屈；数不胜数  device [di?vais]n.装置，设备；设计；策略；图案文档  Its possible, nonetheless, to take a rough stab at working out the internets carbon footprint. A good place to start is the worlds data centres – buildings packed top to bottom with servers full of the web pages, databases, online applications and downloadable files that make the modern online experience possible. Data centres use  lots of electricity, both for powering the machines they contain and – all importantly –for the air conditioning needed to keep the servers from overheating.  虽然如此，粗略估算出互联网的碳足迹是有可能的。一个很好的起点就是世界的数据中心—-将服务器至上而下用完整的网页，数据库，网络运用程序和文件下载使网络尽可能运用使其全面工作。数据中心耗费大量的电能，这些电能用于维持机器的运转包含和—更重要的—空调用于防止服务器过热。  nonetheless [?n?ne??les]adv.虽然如此，但是  rough [r?f] adj.粗糙的，崎岖不平的；粗鲁的；狂暴的，汹涌的；未经加工的  stab [st?b] vt.刺；将…