: Opinion: Cost of hyperconnectivity #IndiaNEWS #News By Cristina Cano Bastidas and Hug March Corbella In the last two years, intense work has been done to deploy 5G networks (or 5th generation networks)

Opinion: Cost of hyperconnectivity #IndiaNEWS #News
By Cristina Cano Bastidas and Hug March Corbella
In the last two years, intense work has been done to deploy 5G networks (or 5th generation networks) in several countries around the world. Limited versions of this mobile network technology have been implemented so far, but it is expected to reach its full potential soon. And although mobile phone operators are still deploying it, it is already beginning to be considered what 6G networks should be like. This new generation could be operational in 10 years, taking over from 5G, in the same way that the predecessor generations have been doing.
Techno-optimistic View
Both 5G and 6G represent a technological leap aimed at increasing global hyperconnectivity, not only of people, but also of the objects that surround us. These networks will allow technological advances so that we have a deeper experience of our lives online: that we can, for example, transmit touch, or representations of our body through holographs or even impulses from our brain. And they will make it possible for practically everything around us to be interconnected.
The objective: to make our industries, agriculture, energy production, logistics or transport more efficient, to make life easier at home, as well as to open up new business models. In the most techno-optimistic imaginaries, there is talk of the positive effect that hyperconnectivity will have, counting on digitisation and artificial intelligence, in the search for (technological) solutions to the multiple environmental crises that we are experiencing through, above all, the use more resource efficient.
Material Impact
But this techno-optimistic view is missing something. When we think about the hyper-connectivity and the exponential growth of data transmission and processing that this vision promotes, it is difficult to see the material impact that this entails. On the one hand, the impact on different geographical scales (far from the points where these technologies are implemented and benefit from them) and on the other hand, in different temporalities (for example, future generations). The issue of energy and emissions is central in this regard. The growing implementation of new technologies goes hand in hand with an increase in total energy consumption.
Climate Emergency,Energy Crisis
It is urgent to take into account the energy consumption involved in maintaining the necessary infrastructure of telecommunications networks and data centres operational and serving an increasingly exacerbated consumption. This is even more important in a climate emergency context, when we are immersed in a convulsive energy market and with an increasingly conflictive energy geopolitics.

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