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> If the Internet was a country, it would be the 6th largest polluter in the world. This is a pretty interesting claim, so I tried to follow the source to see
by fbelzile 6y ago
> If the Internet was a country, it would be the 6th largest polluter in the world.
This is a pretty interesting claim, so I tried to follow the source to see how they arrived at this. It links to this article by Nature [1] but it doesn't have the the quoted text the author seemed to have quoted.
I'm not trying to dispute the claim, I'm just interested in learning more about the data which led to it. Anyone have a peer reviewed article about this?
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y
- saagarjha 6y agoI wonder how much of it is cryptocurrency mining.
- mirimir 6y agoFrom the Nature article: > The energy-efficiency drive at the information factories that serve us Facebook, Google and Bitcoin. I'm guessing less, although I failed at parsing the article.
- ashilfarahmand 6y agoI heard that all of crypto mining uses a similar amount of electricity as Serbia but it is probably more now. Source from Dec 2017 -> https://newatlas.com/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-power-consumption/52556/ https://newatlas.com/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-power-consumptio...