Environmental Impact

Last updated Sep 12, 2023 Edit

• Compsci
• Theory

• Carbon footprint

  • The amount of CO2 required to produce a device AND during its lifetime disposal

• Anthropogenic CO2 is a contributor to rapid climate change

• Datacenters make up 2% of global energy use

• Using Google services for a month produces the same amount of carbon emission as driving your car for a mile.

• 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

• 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

Ethics