ESG <GO> · Environmental, Social and Governance

Lakes, raves and you.

Every rave instance runs on a datacenter, and every datacenter is thirsty. The VRTERM ESG desk measures the environmental cost of your social life in the only unit that matters: lakes.
LAKE <GO>

Lake Bufferbloat: water level vs. rave attendance

Lake Bufferbloat has supplied cooling water to the region's datacenters since it was invented for this page. Every Friday, attendance at a single 80-person rave instance rises, the tails start swinging, and the lake goes down. Every Saturday the DJ says one more.

Dual chart over one weekend. A blue area for lake water level falls from 100 percent on Friday to 6 percent on Sunday, while an orange line for rave attendance climbs to the 80-person cap and stays there. Annotations read 'physbones on', 'DJ: one more' and 'two fish remaining, both furious'.
Correlation is not causation. In this case it is also causation.
6% Lake Bufferbloat capacity
80 People in the instance
1 DJ who said 'one more'
2 Fish remaining, both furious
WATR <GO>

Water cost per hour

Activity, per hour Litres
Standing at a mirror, alone Mostly reflection. 0.50
Four friends in a cosy cabin world 3.20
40-person club instance 48.00
80-person rave, physbones on Every tail is simulated. Every tail is thirsty. 1,240.00
Same rave, DJ plays 'one more' It was five more. 610.00
Loading a 400 MB avatar on a stranger's connection 75.00
Sleeping in VR until morning Rendering your breathing for no one. 220.00
Offset: closing the menu you left open -2.00
One ordinary Friday night 2,194.70
LKS <GO>

Lakes drained, year to date

Event Lakes
New Year's countdown, once per timezone Twenty-four countdowns. Same people at all of them. 4.00
Avatar showcase, outfit change every 30 seconds 1.50
The 24-hour charity stream Raised money for lakes. 2.25
Horror world, 600 jump scares 0.75
A birthday: 80 guests, 3 who knew them 1.10
Lakes drained, 2026 YTD 9.60
FOOT <GO>

Rave footprint calculator

Six questions. We score your instance in lakes. Nothing you answer is stored, which puts us one up on the water.

Price your rave <GO>
OFST <GO>

Offset your rave

Press the button to symbolically refill one lake. It does nothing, which makes it industry standard.

0 Lakes symbolically refilled
ESG-S <GO>

Social and governance

Measure Score / 10
Social: names remembered per rave Hugged 31 strangers. Remembered nobody. 0.20
Social: lobby greeting rate Everyone waves. Nobody stops. 7.50
Governance: world moderators awake The other one is in the sleep world. 1.00
Governance: instance stability after owner left Ran better without leadership. 9.00
Fine print

The water is real. These numbers are not.

Every figure on this page is invented for a joke, including Lake Bufferbloat, its fish and every litre in every table. None of it is a measurement of any real platform, world, event or datacenter.

Datacenters do use real water and real power. For actual numbers, look for an operator's published sustainability report, not a parody terminal.