Online video & CO2
2019-07-15 16:09:20.059771+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium
Online video accounted for 60 per cent of global data flows in 2018, the report states, or 1 zettabyte of data (one thousand billion billion bytes). The report’s definition of “online video” does not include live video streaming such as Skype video calls, “camgirls” or telemedicine, which account for another 20 per cent of global data flows.
kinda buries the lede: Porn streaming is 27% of video watching, vs 33-34% of streaming content like Amazon and Netflix. And what this doesn't compare to is what was the previous cost distributing physical media and transporting it (eg: driving to the video rental place)?