René Mayrhofer: Computer Science Between Energy Savings and Waste

Public Lecture Series "Sustainability in Computer Science".
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Speaker:
René Mayrhofer, JKU Linz
Abstract:
Digital information and communication services offer the potential for significant energy savings: video conferencing instead of trans-continental flight, file transfer and streaming instead of shipping physical media, or cryptocurrency instead of transporting gold and paper money. But what is the real energy balance of these digital options? In this talk, we try to quantify such comparisons based on estimates of the energy consumption of various digital services.