[HTML][HTML] The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects

L Williams, BK Sovacool, TJ Foxon - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The energy efficiency and consumption of mobile networks have received increasing
attention from academics and industry in recent years. This has been provoked by rapid …

How LCA contributes to the environmental assessment of higher order effects of ICT application: A review of different approaches

J Pohl, LM Hilty, M Finkbeiner - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Information and communication technology (ICT) is often considered a technology
for reducing environmental emissions by increasing energy and resource efficiencies of …

[HTML][HTML] Digitalisation, energy and data demand: The impact of Internet traffic on overall and peak electricity consumption

J Morley, K Widdicks, M Hazas - Energy Research & Social Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, concerns have been raised about increases in the electricity used by
information technologies, other consumer electronic devices, data centres, and to a much …

Co-design of digital transformation and sustainable development strategies-What socio-metabolic and industrial ecology research can contribute

S Pauliuk, M Koslowski, K Madhu, S Schulte… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sustainable development and digital transformation profoundly re-shape industrial societies
but have been studied largely independently. In light of pressing global environmental and …

Reducing the carbon footprint of ICT products through material efficiency strategies: A life cycle analysis of smartphones

M Cordella, F Alfieri, J Sanfelix - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the support of a life cycle assessment model, this study estimates the carbon footprint
(CF) of smartphones and life cycle costs (LCC) for consumers in scenarios where different …

Evaluating the energy consumption of mobile data transfer—from technology development to consumer behaviour and life cycle thinking

H Pihkola, M Hongisto, O Apilo, M Lasanen - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mobile data consumption in Finland is among the highest in the world. The increase in
mobile data usage has been rapid and continual future growth is foreseen. Simultaneously …

[書籍][B] Smart green world?: Making digitalization work for sustainability

S Lange, T Santarius - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences
environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the …

Understanding and mitigating the effects of device and cloud service design decisions on the environmental footprint of digital infrastructure

C Preist, D Schien, E Blevis - Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Interactive devices and the services they support are reliant on the cloud and the digital
infrastructure supporting it. The environmental impacts of this infrastructure are substantial …

Digitalisation of goods: a systematic review of the determinants and magnitude of the impacts on energy consumption

S Sorrell - Environmental Research Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Background. The contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a
low carbon economy is unclear. Previous reviews emphasise the need to assess the specific …

The electricity-and CO2-saving potentials offered by regulation of European video-streaming services

R Madlener, S Sheykhha, W Briglauer - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive increases in Internet data traffic over the last years have led to rapidly rising
electricity demand and CO 2 emissions, giving rise to environmental externalities and …