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Environmental Impact of Music Streaming?

posted by janrinok on Monday February 18 2019, @06:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-makes-sense dept.

takyon writes:

How streaming music could be harming the planet

Once vinyl or a CD is purchased, it can be played over and over again, the only carbon cost coming from running the record player. However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it's estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run.

Solution: Use a smartphone or laptop with headphones unless you are playing music for guests. Download the songs you play repeatedly.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:49PM (#803168)

    Let us talk about the power consumed by the servers storing all the data, the power used by all the telecommunications equipments between you and them, and the power consumed by the offices used by the companies that create and maintain these services.

    This story is about streaming music, not ad servicing companies and companies that track you and aggregate untold amounts of data about you that is sold to the ad servicing companies. ;-)