Gregory's Server@gerrymcgovern per wikipedia, total internet traffic was predicted to reach 273 exabytes per month by 2022. let's call it 300 EB/mo this year. (that's considerably less than would be expected from earlier predictions.) if a 1MB email attachment produces 300 g of CO2, Net traffic presumably produces ~90 megatonnes/mo, ~1.08 gt/yr. CO2 emissions from all sources were on the order of 37.5 gt in 2022. i have some difficulty believing that the Net accounts for more than 2% of that.
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ICT accounts for between 2% and 4% of total emissions. The email analysis is flawed because the emissions of the network are almost independent of the traffic volume. This is because the routers etc are always on (it's a bit different for mobile networks and wifi, but the correlation is still weak). |
@jonsinger @gerrymcgovern it can come down to sloppy coding that wastes resources. Every clock cycle should count and in the dark ages it did. Now developers barely know how to write efficient code. Looking at you Python and JavaScript.
Plus adverts / surveillance on everybody uses vast resources to show us ads for products we don't want to buy.
It's estimated that around 80-90% of web traffic is generated by bots sending messages to other bots. Emails are the tip of the iceberg