[According to Google] it takes 10,000 Google searches to equal the CO2 emissions of a five-mile trip in a typical car. While that sounds like a lot, the scale of the Internet is mind-bogglingly massive. A 2010 study calculated that the 62 trillion — that’s right, trillion — spam emails sent each year generate the CO2 emissions equivalent to 1.6 million cars driving around the globe. [mother nature network NOV 2012] [kilojoule]
The internet releases around 300 million tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to every person in the UK flying to America and back twice over.[Guardian, AUG 2010]
Which uses more electricity: the iPhone in your pocket, or the refrigerator humming in your kitchen? Hard as it might be to believe, the answer is probably the iPhone. [TIME, 2013]
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