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If the BBC were to go online only in the 2030's; it has to put into consideration how it plans to be environmentally sound when it distributes it's content via data centres to every person right across the UK.

If a broadcaster was just relying on Internet servers, CDNs and data centres to get it's content right across the country. It may have to budget a bigger pot of money to try and cover maitainece costs when all this I.T. equipment begins to no longer work properly.

What I am asking here is does the BBC plan to open up more CDNs, data centres etc to actually meet the requirements of this plan by being overseen from Tim Davie over the next 10 to 15 years?

There is also a huge environmental cost when this I.T. equipment gets replaced which generates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. When you distribute a stream over the internet; it is one unique stream to one single person who uses a particular device.

If you use a single conventional broadcast stream it is broadcast to millions of people if you use a conventional TV platform around the country.

how many thousands of watts are put into powering and cooling the national transmitter network? probably more than a few CDN boxes in ISP data centres, especially if it's using a shared CDN provider like Akamai, though technologist's post suggests the BBC are moving it towards an in house system these days. The BBC may not even pay much or anything at all towards the power for these; ISPs are happy to host these devices as it drastically reduces their costs

carbon emissions of streaming is quite the magnificent reach. more ludicrous than "internet knowledge".

not all streams are "unique", the BT TV system uses multicast for linear channels, so there is only ever one copy of each channel that is propagated around the network and will not be sent towards users until someone requests it. multiple viewers on the same bit of the network (e.g. a street) receive the same stream.