Starlink - lemm.ee

link to toot [https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111197599097090013] link to article [https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394949-starlink-carbon-footprint-up-to-30-times-size-of-land-based-internet/]

I’d like you all to consider that places where you’d use starlink are also significantly more than 30x farther away from civilization than the average land-based internet user.
Are those places connected to the power grid? If yes then there is no reason they can’t have fiber Internet. If we can electrify we can internetify.
Definitely, that’s what we should do. But that will have a decent carbon footprint and more importantly our government (at least in the US) has utterly failed rural Americans (and more!) in terms of internet roll out.