Cyber warming

The UK government has set up a taskforce led by Manchester City Council to combat the amount of pollution and CO2 pumped out by computers.

The Guardian has this report:

“Growing evidence suggests “cyber warming” from computers and IT is as big a polluter as the airline industry, responsible annually for the same level of climate-changing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions…

An estimated 35 million tonnes of CO2 is generated each year from the production, operation and disposal of IT, such as PCs, printers and monitors. Around 13 million UK PCs are disposed of each year.