Prasun
Giga Guru

The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that's more than the entire United Kingdom.

From data centres to transmission networks to the billions of connected devices that we hold in our hands, it is all consuming electricity, and in turn producing carbon emissions equal to or greater than the global aviation industry.

 

I've built this no-code app in less than 30 mins using ServiceNow's App Engine Studio as part of the #BuildWithAES challenge.

The app simply require you to submit the URL of the website you want to calculate the footprint and gives you the intended resultsfind_real_file.png

 

Massive thanks to the https://api.websitecarbon.com/#response-statistics API to get the details of the website carbon footprint.

You can see the brief video I uploaded on YouTube:

 

Happy Learning 🙂

Happy (Low)Coding 🙂

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OliverJacob12
Tera Contributor

@Prasun wrote:

The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that's more than the entire United Kingdom.

From data centres to transmission networks to the billions of connected devices that we hold in our hands, it is all consuming electricity, and in turn producing carbon emissions equal to or greater than the global aviation industry.

 

I've built this no-code app in less than 30 mins using ServiceNow's App Engine Studio as part of the #BuildWithAES challenge.

The app simply require you to submit the URL of the male delusion calculator canada website you want to calculate the footprint and gives you the intended resultsfind_real_file.png

 

Massive thanks to the https://api.websitecarbon.com/#response-statistics API to get the details of the website carbon footprint.

You can see the brief video I uploaded on YouTube:

 

Happy Learning 🙂

Happy (Low)Coding 🙂


Alongside all the video, music and email services that we use, there are also other things that have an impact on carbon emissions – and website design is one of them. An average website produces 4.61 grams of CO2 for every page view. For websites that have an average of 10,000 page views per month, that makes 553 kilograms of CO2 per year. But there are ways for programmers and owners to reduce the carbon footprint of their websites. At the end of the calculation, a number appears on the screen. But what does the number actually mean? The Website Calculator offers you a hand here too – by displaying comparative values and recommending a range of particularly energy-efficient websites. Those websites tend to use compressed images, efficient file formats and “light” fonts, avoiding overloading the network. They also use a green web hosting service.

Ellabigail
Giga Explorer

Thank you for sharing that information and mentioning the app you built. It's true that the internet consumes a significant amount of electricity, and its carbon footprint is a growing concern. It's great to see initiatives like the one you mentioned, which aim to calculate and raise awareness about website carbon footprints.

Efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the internet are crucial, as the energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with its infrastructure continue to grow. Innovations in data center efficiency, renewable energy usage, and sustainable design practices are being explored to address this issue.

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