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Another example: countries are creating virtual embassies on the online platform Second Life . Yet bringing together and digitizing the elements that define an entire nation poses significant technological and social challenges . Tuvalu has only about 12,000 citizens, but getting so many people to interact in real time in an immersive virtual world is a technical challenge. There are issues of bandwidth , computing power , and the fact that many users are averse to headsets or suffer from nausea. No one has yet demonstrated that nation-states can be successfully transposed into the virtual world.


Even if they could, others argue that the digital world office 365 database makes nation-states redundant . twin in the metaverse is a message in a bottle – a desperate response to a tragic situation . Yet there is also a coded message here, for others who might consider retreating into the virtual in response to the consequences of climate change. Tuvalu will be one of the first nations to be submerged by rising sea levels and faces an existential threat. Mick Tsikas/AAP The Metaverse is not a refuge The metaverse is built on the physical infrastructure of servers, data centers, network routers, devices, and front-end displays.


All of this technology has an invisible carbon footprint and requires physical maintenance and energy. A study published in Nature predicts that the internet will consume about 20% of the world's electricity by 2025 . The idea of ​​the metaverse nation as a response to climate change is exactly the kind of thinking that has brought us here. The language that is being adopted around new technologies – like “cloud computing,” “virtual reality,” and the “metaverse” – presents itself as both clean and green. These terms are loaded with “ technological solutionism ” and “ greenwashing .