This whataboutism we are hearing now about "the energy needed to store your pictures" is just corporate whataboutism, trying to push blame onto consumers. Let'

This whataboutism we are hearing now about "the energy needed to store your pictures" is just corporate whataboutism, trying to push blame onto consumers. Let's say you have 2 TB of photos stored. If that's consuming more than 2 watts of electricity on average, the cloud providers have to be quite incompetent (they are mostly not). 2 watts is 1 kWh in 20 days, so 18 kWh in one year. The emissions from 18 kWh in the US is around 6 kg of CO2. This is the equivalent of driving a car for about 20 minutes on the highway, one time per year. Or spending 5 minutes longer in the shower 4 times per year.