43 AI and data science are therefore an important trend that drives growth in data storage and processing (data processing will be the larger contributor to ICT's energy use, as simply storing data is environmentally cheap in comparison [Preist, personal communication]) and in data centers, which some experts argue leads to an increase in ICT's carbon footprint ( Is data traffic independent of ICT emissions? ).
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