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Online porn has the same carbon footprint as the whole of Belgium
according to a new report by French think tank The Shift Project. Researchers found that overall online videos emit 300 million tonnes of carbon each year and a third of this comes from streaming videos with pornographic content.
The authors of the report worked out global video traffic by looking at 2018 reports by companies Cisco and Sandvine. They then worked out how much electricity was needed to drive this traffic