Our limitless consumption of data today needs 3 times more energy than all the solar panels in the world can produce.Google uses 15,616 MWh of energy each day, this is more than Hoover Dam produces and it would power a whole country with 1 million inhabitants for a day.That is a transport budget of 8 km or 5 miles per day! (4) With the energy you use for video streaming (on average 2hrs per day), you could commute up to 3000 km or 2000 miles with an electric scooter a year.It consumes tremendous amounts of energy with computing without actually creating a product or a service of use.(3) It is important to remember that mining BitCoin produces nothing but a few bytes of encrypted data. It takes more energy to mine for BitCoins than the whole of New Zealand consumes in a year.By turning off the video he would save the same amount of emissions that are created by charging a smartphone each night for over 3 years (1151 days).

An employee who participates in 15 hours of online meetings with their camera turned on, creates 9.4 kg CO2 a month.

If 70 million streaming subscribers were to lower the video quality of their streaming services from HD to Standard, there would be a monthly reduction in 3.5 million tons of CO2-the equivalent of eliminating 6% of the total monthly coal consumption in the US.

If we delete all unnecessary files, apps, photos and videos, we are not just saving a huge amount of CO2 but we are also extending the life of our gadgets, feel more balanced, and we take control over our lives, forge new digital habits, and we will be more efficient and satisfied.īe cool – don’t feed global warming with digital trash!Ĭut down your CO2 share, join the Digital Cleanup Day on Some studies estimate that the internet network will consume 20 percent of the world’s total energy by 2030 (4). Īnd this figure is expected to double by 2025.(3,5) Global energy-related CO2 emissions grew in 2022 by 0.9%, reaching a new high of more than 36.8 billion tonnes (2)īy some calculations, Internet use accounts for 3.7% of global emissions, which is equivalent to all air traffic in the world.

Each year the internet and its supporting systems produce more than 900 million tons of CO2.(1) This digital waste creates digital pollution that continues to consume energy even when we have forgotten it.ĭigital trash sits in the backups on servers that provide us with cloud service and continue consuming electricity. Unnecessary emails, files, apps, duplicates of photos and videos are all digital waste. In the digital world, similar to the environment, there is a huge amount of trash.

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