- Bom dia amigas e amigos leitores, preocupados, como eu, como os dois assuntos correlatos mais importantes do momento histórico que estamos vivendo.
- Estamos falando, é claro, de AQUECIMENTO GLOBAL e suas consequentes MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS, que eu prefiro intitular de DESREGRAMENTO CLIMÁTICO.
- Está em inglês, mas inglês é mais fácil de entender do que português, não é verdade?
- Tenham um bom dia, se ainda for possível desfrutar um bom dia, sobre um planeta cujo meio ambiente só faz se degradar, por nossa culpa de terráqueos irresponsáveis, inconsequentes e por conseguinte suicidas.
Fernando Costa
Do Emails Contribute to Global Warming?
Posted by EditorDavid on Monday January 27, 2020
"Cut back on email if you want to fight global warming," read the headline on a recent article at Bloomberg:
[A]ll those messages require energy to preserve them. And despite the tech industry's focus on renewables, the advents of streaming and artificial intelligence are only accelerating the amount of fossil fuels burned to keep data servers up. Right now, data centers consume about 2 percent of the world's electricity, but that is expected to reach 8 percent by 2030. Moreover, only about 6 percent of all data ever created is in active use today, according to research from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. That means 94 percent is sitting in a vast "landfill" with a massive carbon footprint.
"It's costing us the equivalent of maintaining the airline industry for data we don't even use," said Andrew Choi, a senior research analyst at Parnassus Investments, a $27 billion environmental, social and governance firm in San Francisco. Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs, said these server farms use energy both to retain your data and when you use it... And when you empty the email trash, you probably aren't actually erasing the data. Multiple copies of even decade-old emails are stored on servers around the world, still using energy...
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Posted by EditorDavid on Monday January 27, 2020
"Cut back on email if you want to fight global warming," read the headline on a recent article at Bloomberg:
[A]ll those messages require energy to preserve them. And despite the tech industry's focus on renewables, the advents of streaming and artificial intelligence are only accelerating the amount of fossil fuels burned to keep data servers up. Right now, data centers consume about 2 percent of the world's electricity, but that is expected to reach 8 percent by 2030. Moreover, only about 6 percent of all data ever created is in active use today, according to research from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. That means 94 percent is sitting in a vast "landfill" with a massive carbon footprint.
"It's costing us the equivalent of maintaining the airline industry for data we don't even use," said Andrew Choi, a senior research analyst at Parnassus Investments, a $27 billion environmental, social and governance firm in San Francisco. Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs, said these server farms use energy both to retain your data and when you use it... And when you empty the email trash, you probably aren't actually erasing the data. Multiple copies of even decade-old emails are stored on servers around the world, still using energy...
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