Saving the Planet, One Byte at a Time
summary
Claim: the internet is roughly the sixth largest polluter and data centers cause about 2% of global CO2, the same as aviation. A JFokus page measures 8 g CO2 per visit and 2,000 kWh a year at 10,000 monthly views after testing with Website Carbon and Google PageSpeed Insights; a single background video is 12 MB. Training an NLP model for 3.5 days emits ~284 tons CO2 (about five cars lifetime). Fixes: AVIF compression, region-aware hosting, serverless scaling and right‑sizing.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:02Environmental Impact
- 2:25Carbon Emissions
- 3:27Sustainability Audit
- 7:39Carbon Footprint
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