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Each activity performed in digital environment from monitoring series and movies on in-house platforms leads to carbon emissions in varying quantities. Every passing day, many research is carried out about the environmental damage of digital applications increasing the usage area. According to the study of the climate crisis-oriented thought organization called The Shift Project based in France with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Purdue University, Yale University and Cumberlands University in the USA, energy consumption from digital technologies is increasing by 9 percent annually. The greenhouse gas emission caused by digital technologies is calculated as an average of 1.7 billion tons per year, while this amount creates 3.7 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. The main source behind the data on the Internet and the electricity consumption of data centers, which can reach up to 40 thousand square meters, corresponds to 1 percent of global energy demand, this rate is divided into more numbers than the national energy consumption of many countries.

Search engines are also effective[
According to research; the annual average greenhouse gas emission caused by an internet user is calculated as 414 kilograms. The average amount of 1.45 grams of carbon co-value emission is realized in every search engines, one of the most recommended service providers of Internet users. Accordingly, an average of 50 calls per day on the search engines, behind the year 26 kilograms of carbon footprint leave. Watch video from the Internet with high quality at an average of 7 gigabyte (GB) on the internet, which leads to 441 grams of carbon emissions. Only reducing video quality from high quality to standard quality can reduce monthly carbon release to 2.5 kilograms. This means to avoid the amount up to the carbon emission that arises on a car journey of 150 kilometers. [

The carbon emission of an e-mail containing violet 50 grams
Similarly a standard video conference, average 2.5 per hour GB brings internet usage and 157 grams of carbon emissions. The monthly carbon footprint of a person who performs online meetings for 15 hours a week is increasing 9.4 kilograms. Closing video in online meetings reduces 96% percent of the carbon release. This means a small amount of emissions that will arise if a smartphone is installed every night for 3 years. If the 1 million video conference user closes the video feature during the meeting, the 36 thousand people live in the electricity of a region, the monthly 9 thousand 23 tons of carbon swing is blocked. With a standard electronic mail shipping according to calculations, this amount is increased according to the additions contained by email while the average 4 grams of carbon release occurs. Carbon emission of an email containing visual can find 50 grams. The use of email for business purposes is an average of 135 grams of carbon footprint.

Cripto money is also responsible for emissions]
In recent years, the cryptocurrency industry is shown as one of the responsible for increasing carbon emissions. Especially due to the high amount of energy use required for crypto mining, many countries have banned such mining activities. Only 1 Bitcoin process consumes average 819 kilowatthour energy. This amount comes to about 6 months of electricity consumption of a house. In digital data consumption, the amount per person is changing according to countries. A person in the U.S. has an average of 10 digital devices and a monthly amount of 140 GB of data consumption in India with an average of 1, while data consumption drops to 2 GB.

“ Each activity that is built”]
Kahev Madani, Director of the University of Su, Environment and Health Institute of the University of the United Nations (BM) who worked on the topic in MIT, said that every activity on the internet is a energy consumption, and that consumption leads to a final carbon emission. As technology evolves, Madani, which emphasizes that energy efficiency has not been reduced, continued: "We are in a better place at many points than previous generations in energy efficiency, but people from all over the world are now spending more energy. Here’s the problem. The point where technology comes from is much better, we save progress, but there is also an increase in the number of people connected to the internet globally. And all these people also grow their use. We used small amounts of data such as weightbyte (KB), megabyte (MB) for the old internet. I dreamed of using data in GB. In order to be more sustainable, Kahav Madani said that the activities in the digital environment should not despair people who lead to the carbon emission of their activities: "You should not fall into the kitchen. In fact, every activity you do is a potential benefit. We didn’t say that ‘Digitalization is a bad thing’ is better than the online conference to travel with the plane for a conference or a conference. We just said that the video conference will not be as clean as you think, you should be aware of it. "