Taken together, the collections of servers around the world that push bits to us, both for business and for our pleasure, suck up more energy than is used by a nation with a population of over 65 million. That was five years ago. You can bet that the situation is even worse in 2021.
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Jamie. A good reminder that digital isn't green. It still takes power to run the servers, AC to cool them, and countless switches and hubs between us and any given sever for this all to work.
Gaining control of my digital footprint was a large factor in deciding to build Tanzawa, though it's been less of a focus for these past months as I add more
fun features.
