Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, ‘Zoom calls’ and video meetings have become the norm when communicating with colleagues and clients.
While virtual communication has played a crucial role in connecting people amid the crisis, new data has looked into the negative impact that all of these virtual calls could be having on the environment.
In fact, Utility Bidder has developed a new calculator to estimate how much energy virtual meetings could be using.
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It found that a weekly team meeting consisting of six people, watching in HD 1080p for one hour, releases 0.005kg of CO2.
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