They may have faded into the background (some pretty convincingly), but all those those cell sites require a lot of power!

In his new Pike Research report, “How Mobile Networks Can Cut Carbon” (subscription required), Clint Wheelock finds that with a little cleantech and some data center greening, mobile operators can cut their infrastructure CO2 emissions by 101 million tons, or 42 percent, by 2013.

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