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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:57PM (#35520628)
Takeaway: If you're working for a tech company with billions of users, your personal CO2 footprint is completely irrelevant. Rather than agonizing over flights vs. trains, beef vs. pork vs. vegan alternatives, heating etc. - find some small thing that you have access to and that you can optimize.

That's about 2.2 TWh per year. A decent estimate for average worldwide CO2 intensity of electricity is 400 gCO2e/kWh (that's 400 tons per GWh). A typical personal footprint including some international flights will be in the tens of tons.

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by MyelinatedT on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:01PM (#35563835)
It's worth considering that not all Wh are equal in environmental impact. In the case of many (most?) big tech firms, a large proportion of their energy consumption is sourced from renewable sources.
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