Your first mistake towards sustainability is visiting Nestle in the first place. That company’s existence is the opposite of sustainability.

What’s up with giant corporations and guilt tripping people into switching to dark mode? I’ve heard win11 does this as well.

Guess what? Cycling dark mode results in over 300 requests to nestle servers, so it does use power sending all those requests

According to a Purdue University Study dark mode can save 3 to 9% of your battery if you’re on auto brightness. Let’s say your average phone uses 15Wh per day (5.475 kWh per year). Let’s say 5 billion people use smartphones. That’s around 30 TWh for total yearly smartphone consumption.

So if everyone was using dark mode, it could save around 0.8 to 2.5 TWh a year in the best case scenario. But that is if everything on your phone was dark mode. Not sure how much time people spend browsing websites percentually.

That’s around 0.1 to 2.7 times the daily electric energy production of all nuclear power plants.

The world electricity production is around 23000 TWh per year, so you could save around 0.0036% to 0.01% of yearly energy consumption by switching everyone to dark mode.

Such impactful, much environment, wow