If you’re interested in finding out just how green your technology is (or, conversely, the extent to which you and your toys are despoiling the environment), then you should make TreeHugger a regular stop on your daily e-travels.

One of their more interesting recent articles looked at the amount of power used by the servers for Second Life and its avatars. It turns out that the 4,000 servers consume a substantial amount of electricity, with a correspondingly large carbon emission. I’m not in the camp that says it’s time to go back to a cave-based economy, but I do think it’s good to think about how our various activities–especially those that are optional, rather than essential–have an impact on the environment.

Categories: General computing, Entertainment