{"id":14499,"date":"2024-05-17T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/think-before-you-click-and-three-other-ways-to-reduce-your-digital-carbon-footprint-koren-helbig\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:37:15","slug":"think-before-you-click-and-three-other-ways-to-reduce-your-digital-carbon-footprint-koren-helbig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/think-before-you-click-and-three-other-ways-to-reduce-your-digital-carbon-footprint-koren-helbig\/","title":{"rendered":"Think before you click \u2013 and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been called <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/blog\/internet-climate-change-fixes\/#:~:text=In%20her%20words%2C%20the%20internet,emissions%20than%20the%20aviation%20industry.\">\u201cthe largest coal-powered machine on Earth<\/a>\u201d \u2013 and most of us use it countless times a day.<\/p>\n<p>The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think\">same emissions annually as aviation<\/a>. But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photos of our pets, which are immediately uploaded to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/article\/2024\/may\/18\/how-to-reduce-digital-carbon-footprint-energy-consumption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb270dcc4ce66211f96f8cc9be77b2afc3a51ea9\/0_301_5760_3457\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5a9656f2a83828f3de5f56a6c677fa90\" title=\"Think before you click \u2013 and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig\" \/>The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been called \u201cthe largest coal-powered machine on Earth\u201d \u2013 and most of us use it countless times a day.<br \/>\nThe internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation. But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photos of our pets, which are immediately uploaded to the cloud. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres It\u2019s been called \u201cthe largest coal-powered machine on Earth\u201d \u2013 and most of us use it countless times a day. The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation. But we &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/think-before-you-click-and-three-other-ways-to-reduce-your-digital-carbon-footprint-koren-helbig\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think before you click \u2013 and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}