March 11, 2004

Not Going Gently

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62562,00.html

Concern about the environmental effects of discarded IT equipment has been expressed for many years, with impressive statistical documentation. This article summarizes a UN report on the environmental impact of computer manufacture, which raises another aspect of the issue. It turns out the impact of manufacturing a computer are on par with most other major industrial products, in terms of resource use [most particularly, large amounts of water used in cooling during the production process]. The key to minimizing the environmental impact of computing is to keep existing machines running as long as possible.

With a standard lifespan of two years, computer systems could, in theory be upgraded to minimize the impact of replacing the case, keyboard, etc. In practice, new machines are so cheap that upgrading, prima facie makes no economic sense. Perhaps a deeper investigation and accounting is needed to make the sums balance in this case.

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