I have only been able to find data that shows that the energy useage to store these amounts of data (not stream television, which is orders of magnitude larger) has negligible energy useage.
It’s a bit annoying that this has come up again since you had no reply for me previously @jesus2099: Cover Art: How to reduce PNG file size in GIMP? - #38 by aerozol
Please provide the data, otherwise let people upload what they want, within the rules of MB and the CAA, without harassing them.
It does for me. I have scanned my old CD’s and brought them to charity shops. I’m interested in the historical value of their data (including art and graphic design detail), not the physical object.