Google and The Environment: Law of unintended and unknown consequences

I find these facts fascinating and startling.  Of course, although the writer picks on Google, all Internet usage does this harm to the environment.  We waste so much electricity.  I like to turn lights off in my building since people notoriously leave them on, but that's a drop in the bucket.

https://qz.com/1267709/every-google-search-results-in-co2-emissions-this-real-time-dataviz-shows-how-much/