How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?

Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo... by yholio on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:52AM (#24514841)

Currently, the entire energy consumption of servers stands about 2% of global electricity consumption, which itself is just one of the major emissions sources that include transportation and shipping, agriculture, residential heating etc. And 10% of that 2% is the insanity of cryptocoin mining, which by definition cannot be optimized since it's a system that ultimately competes on burning electricity: https://fortune.com/2019/09/18/internet-cloud-server-data-ce...

It could be 10% by 2030, based on projections made by experts in "sustainable ICT", which sounds self serving to me, and likely to ignore the massive energy demands of growing nations in other sectors.

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Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo... by skeletal88 on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:58AM (#24516128)

I wish some green party would propose banning of crypto mining, since it wastes lots of electricity and creates no real world value that is useful for anything. Like running a factory making bread is useful, you need to heat the owens. But you really don't need to mine for cryptocurrencies to survive.

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