Dirty Streaming: The Internet's Big Secret
Film and TV writer Beth Webb goes in search of the internet and discovers that 鈥榯he cloud鈥� is actually a vast network of energy-guzzling data centres and undersea cables.
Next time you鈥檙e falling down a YouTube rabbit hole, think about this: all the watching, gaming and gramming we do is as polluting as flying.
The internet is using a larger proportion of the world鈥檚 energy than ever before and, with the rollout of 5G, it鈥檚 set to keep on growing.
Film and TV writer Beth Webb goes in search of the internet and discovers that 鈥榯he cloud鈥� is actually a vast network of energy-guzzling data centres and undersea cables.
Most of it is in Virignia, its biggest day-to-day threat is fishing boats, and those five billion streams of Despacito? They used the same amount of energy as five African countries put together over an entire year.
