Microsoft has shared an update on its sustainability efforts on Xbox from the past three years. In that time, the company has reduced its emissions by over 3bn car miles – that’s over 1.2m metric tons of CO2e.
The reduction is largely due to two initiatives. The first is players switching to the Xbox console’s energy saving options to reduce their carbon footprint by optimising updates and downloads to a time when renewable energy can be utilised.
That also includes the Shutdown (energy saving) option, which reduces power consumption while the console is turned off. This can reduce power use by 20 times compared with Sleep mode.
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