ICSI in Geekosystem
"The Internet is Responsible for 2% of the Entire World’s Energy Usage”
October 27, 2011 | Eric Limer, Geekosystem
excerpt:
When you’re trying to figure out statistics about something as nebulous and pervasive as “the Internet,” you’re going to have to performs some interesting mental contortions. After all, how many things out there are connected to the Internet? How many of those things would you consider to be actively “using” it, how much power is there in the world? All valid and difficult questions, valid and difficult questions that Justin Ma and Barath Raghavan, of UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute respectively, were determined to tackle.
article-date:
Thursday, October 27, 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