Spot on Magnus! That tallies with what a colleague pointed out to me today - that the carbon footprint of large data centres, which may be located elsewhere, are not included in carbon footprint of a particular city. They should be included under Scope 3 emissions, similar to the carbon from the production of construction materials that are often produced offshore. A C40 Cities report 92018) about Consumption-based GHG emissions of cities, referenced in my article, has argued that attention needs to switch to such emissions, including embodied.
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