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Computer server bank at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs plant in Villarceaux, France (photo illustration). Balint Porneczi / Bloomberg via Getty Images

According to GreenIT, our digital businesses are now responsible for 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This study estimates that they will double by 2025 with the rapid evolution of the web communications technology sector.

Digital pumps us the air! Without really being aware of our unbridled consumption of online data , we are unknowingly overheating the planet's climate.

With more than 4 billion users and 34 billion devices already in circulation such as smartphones, tablets or computers, this ubiquitous digital currently consumes five times more natural resources than the French fleet, warns us Olivier Vergeynst, representative in Belgium the GreenIT collective .

Three-quarters of the digital footprint comes from the equipment itself and not from its use. We replace our equipment so quickly that we come at a time when digital is a critical and non-renewable resource.

Olivier Vergeynst, GreenIT representative in Belgium explains the impact of digital equipment 22/10/2019 - by Dominique Desaunay Play

However, high-tech industries are likely to double or even triple their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 under the pressure of ever-increasing demand from digital users.

This over-consumption is also displayed on the counters of the Internet Live Stats specialized site, indicating in real time the extent of all our electronic activities.

In just 24 hours, we will have sent about 230 billion emails, launched more than 4 billion search engine queries, posted about 700 million tweets, watched live between 6 and 7 billion videos on our screens.

Our surf will generate at the same time, an electricity consumption of almost 4 million MW / h, releasing in the atmosphere, not less than 3 million tons of CO2.

►To read also: [Infographic] Digital pollution, an invisible plague

The Internet never stops making fat, it swells and swells. This bloated electronic frog is transformed into our environmental ogre, stuffed with electricity, devouring all the resources of the world. He may end up asphyxiating his own creators and their children.