Also mentionable is that that 'exhaust' is increasingly actual literal carbon emissions into the atmosphere as we upload more than 100x the information we actually use onto cloud storage and other servers and then leave them stored there, requiring cooling and capacity.
Definitely! That's a whole post unto itself. I've always been fascinated by how digital interfaces create the illusion of immateriality and allow us to pretend there's no energy/climate impact
Also mentionable is that that 'exhaust' is increasingly actual literal carbon emissions into the atmosphere as we upload more than 100x the information we actually use onto cloud storage and other servers and then leave them stored there, requiring cooling and capacity.
Definitely! That's a whole post unto itself. I've always been fascinated by how digital interfaces create the illusion of immateriality and allow us to pretend there's no energy/climate impact