Spamming the Climate

Spamming the Climate

Posted on April 17th, 2009 Lifestyles 1 comment

A study into spam emails finds it responsible for producing 17 million tons of CO2 every year.

The report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year, consuming 33 billion Kilowatt-hours of energy, the equivalent of powering more than 2.4 million homes for a year. The research by ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee, concluded spam was responsible for emissions of 17 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere a year.

Filtering threw legitimate e-mails and deleting spam used some 80% of the energy, finding that the average business user generates 131kg of CO2 every year, of which 22% is related to spam.

ICF predicted that proper spam filtering would reduce spam by 75%, and would be the equivalent of taking 2.3 million cars off the road.
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