[LINK] In the Face of Climate Change, the Internet Is Unsustainable

[Tom Worthington]

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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