{"id":152668,"date":"2022-12-12T15:26:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-streaming-as-polluting-as-driving-see-the-new-calculations"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:26:50","slug":"video-streaming-as-polluting-as-driving-see-the-new-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-streaming-as-polluting-as-driving-see-the-new-calculations","title":{"rendered":"Video streaming as polluting as driving? See the new calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-streaming-as-polluting-as-driving-see-the-new-calculations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could video streaming be as bad for the climate as driving a car? Calculating Internet\u2019s hidden carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>We are used to thinking that going digital means going green. While that is true for some activities \u2014 for example, making a video call to the other side of the ocean is better than flying there \u2014 the situation is subtler in many other cases. For example, driving a small car to the movie theatre with a friend may have lower carbon emissions than streaming the same movie alone at home.<\/p>\n<p>How do we reach this conclusion? Surprisingly, making these estimates is fairly complicated.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ATHVisions\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>This is remarkable given that we have been able to estimate quite accurately phenomena that are much more complex. In this case, we would only need quantitative information \u2013 the electrical energy and the amount of data used \u2013 that can be determined with great accuracy. The current situation is not acceptable and should be addressed soon by policymakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could video streaming be as bad for the climate as driving a car? Calculating Internet\u2019s hidden carbon footprint. We are used to thinking that going digital means going green. While that is true for some activities \u2014 for example, making a video call to the other side of the ocean is better than flying there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1509,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-entertainment","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}