Find out the environmental impact of your Google searches and internet usage — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1267709/every-google-search-results-in-co2-emissions-this-real-time-dataviz-shows-how-mu
Every Google search comes at a cost to the planet. In processing 3.5 billion searches a day, the world’s most popular website accounts for about 40% of the internet’s carbon footprint.
Despite the notion that the internet is a “cloud,” it actually relies on millions of physical servers in data centers around the world, which are connected with miles of undersea cables, switches, and routers, all requiring a lot of energy to run. Much of that energy comes from power sources that emit carbon dioxide into the air as they burn fossil fuels; one study from 2015 suggests internet activity results in as much #CO2 emissions as the global aviation industry.
“Data is very polluting,” says Joana Moll, an artist-researcher whose work investigates the physicality of the internet. In 2015, to illustrate the environmental consequence of Google searches, Moll created a data visualization called #CO2GLE: [...]
Speaking at the Internet Media Age conference in Barcelona last week, Moll showed another visualization, which she calls “DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST,” to drive home the point. For every second spent on #Google, 23 trees have to use up their #CO2-sucking abilities.
▻http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST.html
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