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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Every Time You Post to Instagram, You’re Turning on a Light Bulb Forever Even simple actions online can take a toll on the environment. The Atlantic TECHNOLOGY 5 July, 2024 | 845 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Every time we make a new video or send an email, or post a photo of our latest meal, it’s like turning on a small light bulb that’ll never be turned off. This points to an uncomfortable, and eminently modern, question: To help save the planet, should we be using less data? Given how much of modern life depends on megabytes and teraflops, the answer could be a key facet to living nobly in the AI age. In a report published in 2021, Mike Berners-Lee, the author of The Carbon Footprint of Everything, and a team of researchers found that if the information-and-communications sector is going to match the reductions necessary to keep global warming under the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold, it will have to cut its carbon em
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