Occasional readers should stick with paper for now.
, global data center electricity use made up around 1 percent of the global final electricity demand in 2020, and data transmission networks composed about 1.1 to 1.4 percent of global electricity use.
“The electricity consumed for data storage of information is growing at an exponential rate, and data for e-books is part of this trend,” says Keoleian. “We all need to be aware that transferring each kilobyte of data and information via the internet has an environmental impact, particularly from electricity consumption from servers and routers in the network.”Manufacturing both paperbacks and e-readers requires a lot of energy and natural resources.
Mike Berners-Lee, a professor of practice in Lancaster University’s Environment Centre, wrote in a postthat a reader must go through at least 36 books before evening out for an e-reader’s footprint. Pierre-Olivier Roy, a lead energy and senior consultant at the International Reference Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes, and Services (
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