How does streaming affect the environment?

Question

I always see posts about how streaming emits CO2 and has a high carbon footprint but I don’t actually understand how that happens.

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Answer 1

The electricity cost of both running your electronic device and the server that the information is stored on and the cost of transferring that information, in general a high proportion of that electricity power will come from fossil fuels which are burned to generate electricity and in doing so release CO2.