On 20/12/19 3:30 pm, Antony Broughton Barry wrote:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/climate-change-internet-unsustainable
It is technically easy to reduce the carbon emissions cased by the
Internet, but hard to find an incentive for anyone in particular to do it.
I have been teaching students at ANU how to estimate the carbon
emissions from IT in an organization, then write a report for their boss
on how to reduce it. The estimates are technically easy, as are the
reduction methods, but the hard part is to find an incentive for someone
to do it. This is especially difficult with "free" web based services.
As bandwidth increases, and computers become more powerful, there is
less pressure to make applications efficient.
http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/
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