The Internet Accounts for 2% of Global Carbon Emissions

We tend to think of the internet as being clean and immaterial. However, the internet has a very real, unseen environmental impact. Energy consumption and Emissions from the web are monumental. Electricity is the Internet’s fuel, powering data centres, telecommunications networks, and devices that you use on a daily basis. 2% of global Carbon Emissions come from the electricity used by the internet. That’s equal to the total carbon figure produced by aviation industry.