The More You Know ★
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- this comes from "if digital technologies were a country they would be 4th largest polluter"kingsteven
- which is all based on Co2 during manufacture of technologies... nothing to do with the energy usage. (95% of a smartphone's Co2 emissions over its lifetime arekingsteven
- in mining the components) if you take global IT sector energy usage as 'internet' (and if that was a country) it would be 3rd largest Co2 producer.kingsteven
- either way thinking of 'the internet' as a country, and a 'polluter' is a huge stretch. and meaningless unless you're outrage marketing carbon offsetting.kingsteven