The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines (2020)(iea.org)
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The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines (2020)
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> Taken together, my updated analysis suggests that streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed around 0.077 kWh of electricity per hour, some 80-times less than the original estimate by the Shift Project (6.1 kWh) and 10-times less than the corrected estimated (0.78 kWh), as shown in the chart, below left. The results are highly sensitive to the choice of viewing device, type of network connection and resolution [...].