> Not eating a single steak would offset my entire life of using the internet.
This appears to be hyperbole - from what I could find, one steak has a carbon footprint of 15.5kg [0] and one Google search has a carbon footprint of 7g [1]. That makes one steak equal to 2214 Google searches. Over a lifetime, 2214 searches seems low. In my browser history, I found evidence of 776 searches in the last 3 months.
Moving away from searches, apparently 1GB of data transfer produces 3kg of CO2 [2]. That makes one steak equal to 5.16GB of data transfer over the internet - or less than one hour of 4K content streamed from Netflix [3].
This appears to be hyperbole - from what I could find, one steak has a carbon footprint of 15.5kg [0] and one Google search has a carbon footprint of 7g [1]. That makes one steak equal to 2214 Google searches. Over a lifetime, 2214 searches seems low. In my browser history, I found evidence of 776 searches in the last 3 months.
Moving away from searches, apparently 1GB of data transfer produces 3kg of CO2 [2]. That makes one steak equal to 5.16GB of data transfer over the internet - or less than one hour of 4K content streamed from Netflix [3].
[0] https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/beef
[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-one-Go...
[2] https://www.emergeinteractive.com/insights/detail/does-irres....
[3] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87