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by iFreilicht 999 days ago
I wonder if the total amount of energy required to stream the same movie from a datacenter across the country might even lead to more CO2-emissions in total. The internet isn't carbon neutral yet.

It's probably an impossible question to answer.

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Maybe, but the point here was plastic pollution. And there, streaming clearly wins, but I believe only marginally.