We likely need more insights like this:
- One e-mail pollutes 10g of CO2 each year (Cleanfox)
- One text message is less polluting, it emits 0,0014g of CO2 per message (NPR). But when you consider all of the text messages send each minute in the World, the carbon footprint is 16 800g of CO2 per minute
- A search on the web emits between 7g and 15g of CO2
Source; https://www.cleanfox.io/blog/carbon-impact/digital-pollution-data-storage-2/