Re: Carbon Efficiency of Semantic Web and Linked Data Queries

looks  like I will have to revisit this thread again in the near future
with some more data. Now even a simple Email a day can count for great
waste according to Tim Berners-Lee's brother Mike

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/nov/26/pointless-emails-theyre-not-just-irritating-they-have-a-massive-carbon-footprint



On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 11:41 AM Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Has anybody done work on Carbon Efficiency of Semantic Web and Linked Data
> Queries?
>
> The very nature of distributed data sets has to come with a substantial
> computational footprint every time a query is issued to a single node or a
> cluster of nodes for a federated query. On the other hand decentralization
> might actually outperform more centralized services in the future.
>
> I can find a number of papers and articles related to carbon efficiency in
> general computing and cloud computing environments and data centers but
> nothing specifically related to the improvement of operational efficiency
> introduced by Semantic Web and Linked Data infrastructures.
>
> There is CO2GLE which attempts to estimate the CO2 emissions per second
> released by web search engines like Google as a reference here:
>
>
> https://qz.com/1267709/every-google-search-results-in-co2-emissions-this-real-time-dataviz-shows-how-much/
>
>
> Regards,
> Marco
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