quicklink | youtube climate impact calculator

storage as we know has a cost, resources to build the thing, the power to keep it up in a data centre, the cooling, the list goes on. it nags at me that the majority of people who post “content” to the web will never really truly know the impact of all this web storage.

the water usage and everything that the cloud affords us that we can click and push it “somewhere” compared to how my entry point was much different from being to host anything anywhere like we have today.

heck, just hosting a realplayer piece of video was an absolute challenge after you got past the codec part of encoding (if it did not crash while doing so) we have come a long way.

that’s not to say we have not deployed novel ways to use old infrastructure and lake adjacent locations where we pull in, cool and spit out water and cycle it but truth be told, the very tools we use to communicate and build, especially ai are increasing cooking us like a baked potato.

maybe off world storage connected via satellite will become the new normal, seeing as intergalactic email has a nice ring to it.

i want to make sure i have these little projects live “somewhere” but i’ll clean them up later as another projects page as i really start to rattle them, oh and trust me, the irony of using ai to build the calculator are not wasted on me either.