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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:00 am
However, we know that it is the manufacturing and use of digital infrastructures that has the greatest impact on the environment, particularly because they are mainly concentrated, at 60%, in Asian countries with carbon-based energy mixes. Finally, the development of the metaverse would have a significant impact on our electricity consumption . Digital services in France represent approximately 10% of annual electricity consumption , while data centers are estimated to represent 4 to 22% of the impact on the environment. Also, the development of metaverses seems to be in particular contradiction with the good practices expressed by ARCEP and ADEME: reducing our consumption of online videos and using lower quality images.
.. These observations have also been noted by several video fusion database game studios – challenges and risks of the metaverse. They have warned through a forum , on its impacts on the environment, and have committed not to invest in the metaverse . The metaverse, a solution or part of the problem? The metaverse is, without compromise, very energy-intensive. However, in the face of environmental criticism, defenders of the metaverse are playing the substitution and progress card . The new interactive space that they are promoting could be a solution to reduce our environmental impact , by leaving our planet from time to time.
However, it would be necessary to quantify the cost of the metaverse, between the energy savings (for travel or immaterial purchases) and the energy cost (in data centers, mining or hardware). It is difficult to quantify the environmental cost of the metaverse, particularly because the information is not necessarily freely accessible, but also because it is difficult to quantify a technology under construction. However, given the weight of streaming, cloud gaming or electronics manufacturing, we know that the metaverse will have a colossal weight in our greenhouse gas emissions and our extraction of raw materials.
.. These observations have also been noted by several video fusion database game studios – challenges and risks of the metaverse. They have warned through a forum , on its impacts on the environment, and have committed not to invest in the metaverse . The metaverse, a solution or part of the problem? The metaverse is, without compromise, very energy-intensive. However, in the face of environmental criticism, defenders of the metaverse are playing the substitution and progress card . The new interactive space that they are promoting could be a solution to reduce our environmental impact , by leaving our planet from time to time.
However, it would be necessary to quantify the cost of the metaverse, between the energy savings (for travel or immaterial purchases) and the energy cost (in data centers, mining or hardware). It is difficult to quantify the environmental cost of the metaverse, particularly because the information is not necessarily freely accessible, but also because it is difficult to quantify a technology under construction. However, given the weight of streaming, cloud gaming or electronics manufacturing, we know that the metaverse will have a colossal weight in our greenhouse gas emissions and our extraction of raw materials.