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napkin math on https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 0.855 pounds/0.38kg of CO2 per kWh. or 0.38
by ilyt 3y ago
napkin math on https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
0.855 pounds/0.38kg of CO2 per kWh.
or 0.38g per Wh
so 3.6g would be ~9.4 Wh, let's assume 10Wh
Site takes ~700ms to render, . So it would need to consume the equivalent of over 5kW of compute for a second to get that amount of CO2 per view.
That assuming it would be 100% load, and not just "waiting on various network RTTs"
I think it's safe to assume it's pure bullshit, even including every device along the way
- Maxion 3y agoI don’t think that metric is just the power usage of the servers, it’s more likely that it also includes the other energy costs of the company and its employees, and how much effort went in to working on the article itself.