OT: How many trees will Microsoft have to plant ?

[Andrew]

Some announcement there.

How much electronic junk has ended up in landfill or being shipped to Africa for 'recycling' since 1983 when the IBM PC started its evolution into becoming a domestic appliance ?.

How much energy is used every year to a) power all those cloud server farms, and b) keep them cool ?

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

I know I thought the same, and of course you also need to know that microsoft basic even predates the pc as it was used on Atari and numerous other home computers in the 80s. Brian

[tabbypurr]

How many PCs have been junked simply because windows was so obese?

BTW, trees plant themselves when left to it.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Also if these undersea server farms come along maybe they can plant seaweed to compensate for them. Brian

[polygonum_on_google]

C-weed?

[mm0fmf]

It was old in the 80s, it was first released in 1975.

[newshound]

About 10 kWh per year for every person on the planet, according to US DoE

[Andy Burns]

There are plenty of numbers "out there" that place it much higher than that already

[harry]

And where will they be planted?

[alan_m]

Algae in the sea is said to capture more CO2 than the total number of trees on the planet. By creating the right conditions for more algae we may solve the climate crisis within the year. The really green solution would be to just pump our raw sewage out to sea to provide the nutrients for algae production.