The Cloud Is Killing The Planet

Johno100

What has also not been mentioned yet is cloud storage by it's very nature isn't location dependent meaning the infrastructure can be located anywhere. To that end there are already data centres in the desert in the US and Middle East powered by solar energy and for close to 10 years Iceland with its hydro and geo-thermal energy has been the home to large data farms.

JJ_Egan

Wonder where all the forums user posts are stored ??

OP should stop posting and save a bit of space on the cloud .

Norman_Castle

buglawton said:

The best recent perspective (and debunking of some of the scaremongering) was in this radio podcast 'Netflix vs The Environment':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads

I'm sure I heard that. The calculations were based on dated and incorrect information. Instead of 30 minutes of Netflix equalling four miles of driving it equalled two hundred metres.

renegadefm

It was a thing on 5 Live at about 2am but it stressed that if people think that storing things online is efficient they are seriously mistaken. 
These sites like the Cloud uses massive computer systems driven by fossile fuels which is killing our planet. 
A far greater disruption to the environment than we were doing lets say in the 70's with polaroid snaps. They even mentioned why cant we go back to storing things like photos the old way, and store things in our own homes the physical way instead of having power hungry computers running all over the world storing our data. It really was a disturbing thing to hear. 

renegadefm

@JJ_Egan
I do try to make my comments count. Unlike some others on here. 

Norman_Castle

renegadefm said:

These sites like the Cloud uses massive computer systems driven by fossile fuels which is killing our planet. 
A far greater disruption to the environment than we were doing lets say in the 70's with polaroid snaps. They even mentioned why cant we go back to storing things like photos the old way, and store things in our own homes the physical way

Cloud providers will move to renewable energy when its financially viable, its in their interest to do this. As previously mentioned the sites are being built at sites providing cleaner energy.

At car boot sales I often see families selling vast dvd and cd collections. Many will have been bought on a whim as part of the weekly shopping, watched once they are heading for landfill. It would be interesting to see an environmental comparison between X thousand individuals buying physical films and the films being watched online.

Dandytf

@RumRat
I need that spinning Sheep Icon, please.

Edited with IPad you can just do that!
Thanks

John_

renegadefm said:

It was a thing on 5 Live at about 2am but it stressed that if people think that storing things online is efficient they are seriously mistaken. 
These sites like the Cloud uses massive computer systems driven by fossile fuels which is killing our planet. 
A far greater disruption to the environment than we were doing lets say in the 70's with polaroid snaps. They even mentioned why cant we go back to storing things like photos the old way, and store things in our own homes the physical way instead of having power hungry computers running all over the world storing our data. It really was a disturbing thing to hear. 

Rubbish. The BBC’s “more or less” podcast nicely takes apart this piece of idiocy;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p085487s

John_

renegadefm said:

@JJ_Egan
I do try to make my comments count. Unlike some others on here. 

But you don’t, you post some real idiocy without stopping to think if it’s correct, or makes sense.

Surely you must be aware that you have a tendency to misunderstand even relatively simple ideas and so realise that you need to check before posting, don’t you?

Johno100

renegadefm said:

It was a thing on 5 Live at about 2am but it stressed that if people think that storing things online is efficient they are seriously mistaken. 
These sites like the Cloud uses massive computer systems driven by fossile fuels which is killing our planet. 
A far greater disruption to the environment than we were doing lets say in the 70's with polaroid snaps. They even mentioned why cant we go back to storing things like photos the old way, and store things in our own homes the physical way instead of having power hungry computers running all over the world storing our data. It really was a disturbing thing to hear. 

Did you bother any of the other links provided or is your mind totally closed?