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Carbon Cost Of Internet On The Rise
Down To Earth
|April 01, 2021
The environmental impact of digital platforms is becoming glaring by the day.
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In a first, Dutch economist Alex de Vries recently estimated that the annual energy consumption of popular digital currency Bitcoin soared by 80 per cent from 72.17 terawatt-hours (tWh) on January 1, 2020 to 130.39 tWh on March 16 this year— which is more than what Argentina consumes each year. Vries adds that Bitcoins leave behind a carbon footprint of 38.10 Mt a year—higher than the annual footpri
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