The Hidden Costs of Streaming Music | The New Yorker:
Like everything we do on the Internet, streaming and downloading music requires a steady surge of energy. Devine writes, “The environmental cost of music is now greater than at any time during recorded music’s previous eras.” He supports that claim with a chart of his own devising, using data culled from various sources, which suggests that, in 2016, streaming and downloading music generated around a hundred and ninety-four million kilograms of greenhouse-gas emissions—some forty million more than the emissions associated with all music formats in 2000. Given the unprecedented reliance on streaming media during the coronavirus pandemic, the figure for 2020 will probably be even greater.
The whole article is worth reading.
Ottmar, I read a similar article in 2019 in Rolling Stone. I had no idea about the environmental impact of everyone streaming. Scary to think what it is today in a Covid-19 world.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/environmental-impact-streaming-music-835220/