Dirty data: Firms count environmental costs of digital planet
(WorldNews France)

PARIS: Technology is often touted as a solution to the world´s environmental challenges, but it is also part of the problem: industry executives are facing rising pressure to clean up their energy and resource-intensive business. How much energy, for example, does it take to send a one-megabyte email? Around 25 watts per hour, representing 20 grams of carbon dioxide emissions, according to France´s CNRS research center. It might not seem like much, but the Radicati research group expects 293 billion emails will be sent every single day this year and the power needs to be generated - mostly from fossil fuels. Apps can quickly drain and shorten the life of phone batteries, with Snapchat a...