While people believe that going digital and working from home would help the environment,  the amount of energy used by data centres has doubled every four years, and is expected to triple in the next 10 years.  Also, the carbon emissions from Bitcoins are similar to emissions by around one million transatlantic flights..  A 2015 study stated that 2% of the world’s carbon emissions came from data centres, close to the emissions by the aviation industry.

https://india.mongabay.com/2020/08/low-carbon-websites-to-cut-emissions/

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