The massive shift to remote work due to COVID-19 has resulted in a huge reduction in emissions from vehicles and other sources, but it comes with costs of its own. A new study puts tentative carbon costs on the connectivity and data infrastructure that make working from home possible — and gives you an excuse to leave the camera off. The researchers, from Perdue, Yale and MIT, attempted to analyze the carbon, land and water costs of internet infrastructure. “In order to build a sustainable digital world, it is imperative to carefully assess the environmental footprints of the Internet and identify the individual and collective actions that most affect its growth,” they write in the paper’s introduction. Using a single metric is too reductive, they argue: Carbon emissions are a useful metric, but it’s also important to track the sources of the power, the water cost (derived from what’s needed to cool and operate data centers) and the theoretical “land cost” needed to produce the product.
Remote Workers Are Greener, But Their Tech Still Has A Real Carbon Cost
Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch
Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:25pm
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