at the institute for ecological economy research in berlin to learn from terry asus trying to find out how green digitalisation really is. many people believe digitalisation automatically reconciles environment and economics leads to savings if you think about how many devices a small phone can replace it seems great like it should definitely lead to a reduction in resources but it's not that simple to him on your own distribution of digital devices the infrastructure cables data centers and so on also we've got a huge amount of energy. with his interdisciplinary research groups ontario's has for the 1st time modeled an eco balance sheet for digitalisation. his results are surprising. just one example the internet is a huge energy goes a lot it accounts for 8 percent of all german electricity use that's a lot of internet. so it's a significant factor. if the internet was a country it would be 3rd in terms of power consumption globally after china in the u.s. . smartphone obsession is a common condition nowadays. even here more energy is being used than you might think. constantly use c