ICSI in The Daily Californian
"Internet Accounts for Almost 2 Percent of the World’s Total Energy Consumption"
October 30, 2011 | Paras Shah, The Daily Californian
excerpt:
UC Berkeley researchers have estimated that it takes between 1 and 2 percent of the world’s energy to construct, run and maintain the Internet. According to the research, which will be presented Nov. 14 at the Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks in Cambridge, Mass., the Internet uses between 170 and 307 gigawatts — about 1.1 to 1.9 percent of the 16 terrawatts of energy consumed by humanity.
article-date:
Sunday, October 30, 2011
recap:
Barath Raghavan and UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Justin Ma have found that the Internet and the devices that comprise it are responsible for using about 2 percent of the total energy used by humans