FOR an industry that deals in invisible waves and wireless wonders, the telecommunication industry definitely burns through a vast amount of electricity each day.
Whether it’s a rural base station beaming 5G across a paddy field or a hyperscale data centre crunching through cloud storage, telecommunications companies (telcos) are among the world’s biggest energy consumers.
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