The whole cloud business should be reviewed. For movies maybe we should go back to the old DVD
Streaming’s dirty secret: how viewing Netflix top 10 creates vast quantity of CO2
The Guardian
Explosion in popularity of shows on Disney+ to YouTube raises question of impact on planet
Streaming has a dirty secret. The carbon footprint produced by fans watching a month of Netflix’s top 10 global TV hits is equivalent to driving a car a hefty distance beyond Saturn. (...)
Every activity in the chain required to stream video, from the use of huge datacentres and transmission over wifi and broadband to watching the content on a device, requires electricity – the majority of which is generated by emitting greenhouse gases. (...)
The growth in internet traffic has been stratospheric in the last few years, with as much as 80% of the data capacity taken up by the popularity of the bandwidth-heavy services of a handful of companies such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty, and Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite. (...)
Every activity required to stream video, from the use of huge datacentres to transmission over wifi and broadband, requires electricity. Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock.
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