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Your introductory point about share of lobal emissions is something I think we as an industry don't really realize yet. So, to give some more precise numbers ab
by florimondmanca 6y ago
Your introductory point about share of lobal emissions is something I think we as an industry don't really realize yet. So, to give some more precise numbers about that…
> data centers contribute 3% of global greenhouse emissions
Not true according to my research [0] — more like _Tech in general_ contributes ~4% of global GHG emissions. Within that, datacenters only represent ~20%. (The rest is 15% for networks, 20% for consumer devices consumption, and the remaining 45% for manufacturing of equipment.)
And also:
> (same amount as the entire airline indistry).
Air traffic accounts for ~2% of global GHG emissions [1], so Tech is actually twice as bad as air traffic there. Other ways to put it is: as much as all trucks on the planet, and 4x emissions of a country like France.
[0]: https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rapport-final-v8-WEB.pdf https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rappo... (FR) (p18, p20)
[1]: https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html