Spam (Junk E-mail) 'produces 17m tons of CO2'

[Netto Azure]

Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'

A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes.
The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year.
This amounted to emissions of more than 17 million tons of CO2, the research by climate consultants ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee found. Searching for legitimate e-mails and deleting spam used some 80% of energy. The study found that the average business user generates 131kg of CO2 every year, of which 22% is related to spam.

Well, well more reason to hate the messed up stuff. But it will be part of our lives until people learn average CyberSecurity at least. D:

Eh, unless someone develops a miracle filter we'll just find more ways to hate the junk.

 

[Halberd Bravo]

So spam is not only an irritating, inbox-clogging nuisance, but it's actually bad for the environment as well?

Man. Now I'm just waiting for experts to say it causes cancer, too.

 

[Valdez]

Hah, well if you wanted to cut down on CO2 emissions from internet use try using Blackle instead of Google.

 

[X Dragoon]

And I thought spam would cause enough problems, but really, the environment?!