🎧 IRL Podcast: The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Manoush Zomorodi explores the surprising environmental impact of the internet in this episode of IRL. Because while it’s easy to think of the internet as living only on your screen, energy demand for the internet is indeed powered by massive server farms, running around the clock, all over the world. What exactly is the internet’s carbon footprint? And, what can we do about it?
This all makes me wonder what impact 5G might have in regards to ‘carbon footprint’? Will it just make it easier to waste the world away? This is something that James Bridle touches upon in the New Dark Age.
Replied to Listen: IRL Podcast: The Internet’s Carbon Footprint by Aaron Davis
I briefly wondered about  hosting on a solar powered Raspberry Pi.
Replied to Listen: IRL Podcast: The Internet’s Carbon Footprint by Aaron Davis Aaron Davis
I briefly wondered about  hosting on a solar powered Raspberry Pi.