Blog post for Edgeryders' work on climate

[noemi]

@inge

From consumption, to play, to the internet

From the paragraph below I would reframe “We need to change our value system: from consumption…”

All the text above this section for me is too much, and many things are quite well known.
If this is a text on ER work, than 80% of it being exposition and only 20% about ER work is not ideal. But that’s just me.

Example:

@inge

Around 10% of the world’s total electricity is consumed by the internet, and training a deep learning algorithm produces the equivalent of 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide — nearly five times as much as the lifetime emissions of the average American car, including the manufacturing process.

And then there’s a strong trend to push electricity consumption onto the internet where energy costs are less transparent. Cutting travelling and moving to zoom isn’t as environmentally friendly as we think it is (the internet currently consumes as much energy as the airline industry).

All this maybe can be summarized as:
Around 10% of the world’s total electricity is consumed by the internet, and the trend is to push many hidden costs in it because they are not transparent i.e. deep learning algorhythm produces the equivalent of 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.