Online video generates over 300 million tons of CO2 per year, eight times more than Bitcoin  

Jamie Erick

Business 3 years ago
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https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/

Digital technologies now emit 4% of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and its energy consumption is increasing by 9% a year. The Shift Project published in March 2019 the rapport “Lean ICT – Towards Digital Sobriety” (2019). In it we recommended making digital transition compatible with climate imperatives and the constraints of resources. Digital sobriety consists in prioritizing the allocation of resources as a function of uses, in order to conform to the planet’s physical boundaries, while preserving the most valuable societal contributions of digital technologies. This requires questioning the pertinence of how we use digital technologies, one of which is online video whose use we focus on in this new report
  • Video
  • Bitcoin
  • CO2