Greening of Streaming

Hi folks

I run an organisation www.greeningofstreaming.org

The Guidelines just out caught my eye https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/2023/09/07/web-sustainability-guidelines/

I would love to chat a bit more about this.

Fundamentally research we have carried out and continue to carry out is clearly showing that in the distribution networks energy is not proportional to data traffic. 

This is a common misunderstanding. It leads to digital media companies being quite wed to the idea that saving data saves the planet.

We are seeing no evidence that not sending data reduces energy consumption. We have been measuring events like the world cup streaming online and more, and network energy is not related to traffic, it is related to the peak provisioned capacity of the network. Much looks to be similar in cloud.

It might be worth exploring that theme and thinking about it in terms of some of the guidelines you have been publishing..

Do let me know if you would like to find out more

Kind regards

Dom
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