Email makes the earth warmer

An office worker indirectly generates an average of 13.6 tons of CO ₂ per year through e-mail behavior, a French government agency said.

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Whenever people send email, we have to turn on the computer and access the Internet. The email content will then be stored in servers and data warehouses - things also need electricity to operate. Most of the electricity for computers and servers is produced from fossil fuel burning operations such as oil and coal.

According to a report by the French Agency for Environmental and Energy Management (ADEME), only for sending and receiving e-mail, each indirect office employee generates an average of 13.6 tons of CO2 per year, ie more than twice the average amount of CO2 produced by a Frenchman every year.

ADEME gives the above figure after studying a French company. 100 people in the company work 220 days per year. Each person received 58 and sent 33 emails a day. The average capacity of each email is 1MB.

The higher the number of recipients and the larger the amount of e-mail, the higher the amount of CO2 emitted.

Facebook and Twitter - two of the world's largest social networks - claim they are working to minimize CO ₂ emissions to a minimum.

Facebook, a social network with about 800 million users, is building a large data center in the Swedish city of Luleaa. Luleaa is located near the Arctic so its cold weather will cool servers. As a result, Facebook does not have to use an air conditioner, which increases the amount of CO2 in the air due to electricity use.

Raffi Krikorian, Twitter's director of infrastructure, has said the company will strive to reduce one ton of CO ₂ that Twitter users indirectly create every day.