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- According to France’s CNRS research centre,sending 1MB e-mail takes around 25 watts per hour which represents 20 gm of carbon dioxide emissions.
- The research centre has estimated that 293 billion emails will be sent every single day this year and the power will be mostly generated from fossil fuels.
- The share of greenhouse gas emissions from information and communication technologies (ICT) will rise from 2.5% in 2013 to 4% in 2020.That makes the sector more carbon-intensive than civil aviation (a 2% share of emissions in 2018) and on track to reach automobiles (8%).
- Further,apps can quickly drain and shorten the life of phone batteries. Then there are the server farms which require huge amounts of electricity both to run and to power air-conditioning which keeps the equipment from getting too hot.
- The surge in Video streaming services also poses a challenge.In 2017, Greenpeace estimated that the viral K-pop sensation Gangnam Style, viewed more than 2.7 billion times, had consumed a year’s worth of production from a small nuclear power plant.



