Did You Know The Internet Is One Of The World's Largest Polluters?
Learn more about the impact your website has on the environment and what you can do to help.
The internet industry consumes enormous amounts of energy. The backbone of the internet are data centers which hold millions of large servers, stacked on top of each other in racks and they are powered up and running all day every day.
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These servers consume enormous of energy and to make sure that they do not over heat and fail, they are blasted with arctic temperature air all day every day.
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In fact 40% of all of the energy used to power the internet is used to keep those servers from overheating.
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Data centers worldwide all pull energy from whatever power grid they rely on. Most energy in our power grids are produced by carbon polluting sources.
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In 2012 there were 500,000 data centers worldwide. Today there are over 8 million data centers worldwide, an increase of 16 fold in 7 years.
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The Internet is the fastest growing carbon polluting industry and it will eclipse all other industries in terms of worldwide pollution.
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Today, data centers account for 2% of the world’s carbon emissions, that is as much as the AIRLINE INDUSTRY!
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But it doesn't stop there.
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Data Center pollution is expected to grow to 14% of the world’s carbon emissions, as much as the United States of America, by 2040.
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This is a massive problem and it is only getting worse.
