CO2
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Carbon footprint
- The amount of CO2 required to produce a device AND during its lifetime disposal
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Anthropogenic CO2 is a contributor to rapid climate change
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Datacenters make up 2% of global energy use
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Using Google services for a month produces the same amount of carbon emission as driving your car for a mile.
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A Google search releases about 1g of carbon dioxide, and they receive about 99,000 searches per second as of 2022
- Mining of metals causes massive environmental destruction
Resources required to make tech devices
- Gold - Printed Circuit Boards, CPU connectors/fingers
- Silver - PCBs, CPUs, keyboard membranes
- Platinum - HDDs, circuit board components
- Palladium - HDDs, Circuit board components
- Copper - CPU heat sinks, wiring and cables, computer chips
- Nickel - circuit board components
- Cobalt - HDDs, batteries
- Tantalum - Circuit board components and capacitors
- Aluminium
- Tin
- Zinc
- Neodymium