C02 consumption from your daily tech usage

I love this kind of sites.

It’s the deepest article I’ve seen on the topic of CO₂ emissions in tech, with interactive bits, graphs and calculators.

It starts with this shocking calculation. A seemingly normal tech consumption is actually pretty costly in terms of CO₂ emissions.

Last week, I streamed 20 hours of videos on Netflix, YouTube, and Canvas. I asked 50 questions to ChatGPT and made 532 Google searches. I sent 25 emails and 325 WhatsApp messages. From behind my screens, it did not feel like I was contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, the environmental impact of my online activity was real—it amounted to 1,447 grams of CO₂ equivalents[…]

Over a year, this would add up to approximately 75 kilograms of CO₂ equivalents. To put that number in perspective, that is like:

• Driving 183 miles in a gas-powered car.

• Eating 6 servings of beef (25 grams of protein each).

• Charging a smartphone every day, until the year 2070.