Pointless E-mails: destroys Earth?
Written on August 21st , 2020 by Kun Lee
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Having pointless e-mails can seriously harm the environment
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Is this true?
There are about 2.3 billion e-mail users around the world.
If each user deletes 50 e-mails, 8,625,000GB storage can be saved, which is equivalent to 8,423TB.
What is that Storage?
data center (from datacenterknowledge.com)
Although we cannot see with our two eyes, enormous data are continuously traveling around through the LAN wires.
All the data are stored in a place called the data center, which is country and companies have several or dozens of them.
The data center is never turned off, and because they infinite heats, lots of coolers are activated as well.
To run the data center and the cooler, they use 32kwh of energy for 1GB of storage.
Coming back to the e-mail part, 50 e-mails deleted by each user around the world can save 8,423TB, which means it saves 276,000,000kwh energy.
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It is as if turning off 2.7 billion lights for 1 hour.
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What Should We Do?
Easy steps are required from you, to help saving the environment.
- Delete your unnecessary e-mails. (spams, already read)
- Delete your pointless e-mails that you do not use.
- Share this fact to your network!
Citation:
지금 당신이 쌓인 이메일을 지워야 하는 이유｜크랩" YouTube, uploaded by KLAB, 28 April 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aS7fNUG9Ps&t=44s
