{"id":17068,"date":"2022-11-15T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karlsruhe.digital\/2022\/11\/michael-saup-interview\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:55:24","slug":"michael-saup-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlsruhe.digital\/en\/2022\/11\/michael-saup-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimal Carbon Internet was the result of suffering – an interview with Michael Saup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The resource consumption of a blockchain transaction is roughly equivalent to that of an iPhone<\/a>. Every single search query, every streamed song or video and every type of cloud computing, carried out billions of times all over the world, is responsible for an ever-increasing global demand for electricity – and therefore also for rising CO2 emissions. <\/a>This hasn’t just been a problem since the energy crisis, but solutions are needed now. Sustainability is above all a cultural challenge in which old patterns and habits need to be questioned and unfamiliar things need to be embraced. Changes are addressed very differently through art and culture than through science. In this respect, an active and diverse arts and culture scene that gets involved is an important driver for transformation processes. <\/a>The karlsruhe.digital initiative got involved and took an artistic approach<\/a>: Minimal Carbon Site<\/a> is the result. Media artist and computer scientist Michael Saup<\/a> explains the project in an interview. <\/p>\n\n

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