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How much energy does it take to store 1 Terabyte of data in the cloud?
According to a 2016 blog post by Backblaze, a (particular) 1.5TB HDD uses 3.4W when idle and 5.9W when operating. This gives a lower bound of 20 kWh / TB / year and an upper bound of 35 kWh / TB / ...
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How much, if any, does resolution effect the net power consumption of watching online video?
The Natural Resources Defense Council commissioned a study in late 2015 to understand the energy consumption from 4K TVs, titled The Big Picture: Ultra High-Definition Televisions Could Add $1 Billion ...
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How much CO2 do I cause with one Google search?
As LShaver and Gerrit also mentioned in their comments, an exact answer would depend on the scope and method of calculation. You've already mentioned you are only interested in the search itself so I ...
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What is the relative carbon footprint of getting ones media from Netfix or bittorrent
I'm not sure what P2P protocol was used and if results for BitTorrent would be the same, but in this study
they calculated
a decrease of 24-48% in the system-wide carbon footprint of online video ...
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What is the Degrowth perspective on ad blocking and online advertising?
If you use services which are paid for by someone else, through advertising or because they like the views that the editor is pushing, then you forfeit an element of control and knowledge about ...
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The sustainability of Spotify
Summary: storing music locally most likely uses a bit less energy than streaming music, but it depends on things like if you replay the same song multiple times and if the music streaming service ...
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Green social media to connect with nearby people to help reduce carbon footprint
Here's what I've come across so far (not affiliated, just sharing):
collective.energy is a fairly new but highly active community, I was lucky to notice its launch on Product Hunt recently;
green ...
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Green social media to connect with nearby people to help reduce carbon footprint
Meetup.com has all sorts of groups with different interests, and I am sure you will find a nearby group that aligns with yours. It is designed to show you what is happening close to you.
In a ...
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How much energy does it take to store 1 Terabyte of data in the cloud?
The open-source project Cloud Carbon Footprint estimated the carbon footprint of storing 1TB in the Cloud. In their methodology they explain that they use the following numbers:
HDD average capacity ...
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What's the most carbon efficient format for videos on YouTube?
YouTube reformats all uploaded videos:
YouTube stores whatever you upload and transcodes to other formats using their own versions of multiple compression formats including h.264 and webm
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Where to find the column "Decadence Now", which is cited in _Garbology_
It was perhaps rather tricky to find, but I did find a copy of the column using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
You may read the column here.
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