Netflix – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:40:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://surprise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1422/2020/07/az_frown_klein-150x150.png Netflix – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org 32 32 3. Correct! We are not saving any power https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/11/3-correct-we-are-not-saving-any-power/ Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:21:01 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=150 Commodity Trading
Through the costly transport of goods for our customers, we are all massively contributing to climate change. For the benefit of our customers, who prefer to order from home, we quickly destroy products that are as good as new or still usable, since products that have been returned and products that have not been sold for some time are often destroyed immediately, to save costs. Unfortunately, our own aircraft fleet also causes considerable CO2 emissions. The delivery of even the smallest individual quantities increases the emission of pollutants, but it also ensures your comfort and saves you effort and movement!
 
Streaming
You are likely benefiting too: from January to March 2019 alone, Germans over 14 years streamed around 1.2 billion hours of films and series on the Internet. Many use Netflix and Amazon Prime because it’s convenient – some may use it because it seems more environmentally friendly. But streaming services require a lot of electricity. To stream movies, series and songs online, data must be stored on servers. And these servers need power: According to SWR, the network infrastructure in Germany consumes about 55 TWh per year. To provide the electricity for this, you need about ten medium-sized power plants. By the way, one third of this power goes to air conditioning systems. They have to cool the data centers to about 25 °C so that they do not overheat. Of course, not only streaming services are part of the network infrastructure, but they make up a large part of it: Global data traffic consists of 80 percent video data. The files are particularly large and therefore also consume a lot of space on servers and a lot of energy during transmission.
In 2018 alone, video streaming has caused more than 300 million tons of CO2 equivalents. This is equal to the amount that the entire country of Spain emits in one year. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions have increased dramatically. Two other figures illustrate the extent: in general, streaming causes a whole percent of global CO2 emissions, or 20 percent of all greenhouse gases caused by digital technology.
We do our part – for your entertainment!
]]> 10. Correct! He was able to increase his wealth by $30 billion https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/04/10-correct-he-was-able-to-increase-his-wealth-by-30-billion/ Sat, 04 Jul 2020 09:17:46 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=219 Even before the pandemic, Jeff Bezos was incredibly rich. During the pandemic, he was able to increase his wealth by $30 billion. 13 billion in April alone. His wealth increased by 20% in the first 4 months of this year. He is the richest person in the world. Not only does he have great power economically, he also influences politics and media. For example, he owns the Washington Post newspaper. Kings in former times subjugated and tormented their subordinates, the rulers of today allow for some comfort and practicality! Become a Prime customer!
 
Amazon & Corona
Due to the pandemic, many people have retreated into their apartments and houses in recent months (if they are so privileged to have their own housing). In order to avoid contact with other people and thus further reduce the risk of infection with the virus, many people are now increasingly shopping online. Even people who previously did not buy online at all have now started to do so. We have benefited greatly from this. And those who were locked up at home for months had to do something there, like watch a lot more Netflix. Netflix runs on Amazon’s web servers AWS (Amazon Web Services). As a result, Amazon has grown enormously in several business areas and Jeff Bezos is one of the biggest winners of the pandemic. However, in order to be able to continue to offer our services in the same way, we don’t have that much left for the workers who are on the other side of this development. Even before the pandemic they were slaving hard in the warehouses for you and unfortunately we can’t meet the hygienic requirements either. But we thank them for their commitment!
 
 
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