3. Correct! We are not saving any power
On 11 Jul, 2020 By jeffb With Comments Off on 3. Correct! We are not saving any power
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!