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by octacat 992 days ago
Transportation of the disc to the house would probably use more resources than streaming it from a datacenter. But yea, disks could be reused. Spent gas - not.

> The energy intensity figures for data centres and data transmission networks were updated to reflect more recent data and research. As a result, the central IEA estimate for one hour of streaming video in 2019 is now 36gCO2, down from 82gCO2 in the original analysis published in February 2020.

> New passenger cars generally emit from 90 (smaller cars) to 150 (larger cars) grams of CO2 (yes, it's the weight of the whole carbon dioxide, not just the carbon in it) per kilometer.

Disks could be still better, if you rent 20 of them at once.