Analysis: the Internet and Electricity - ' Facts '
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Facts
- The amount of power required to push a single byte of information across the World Wide Web is cut in half every 18 months, but the number of bytes traveling the Web is doubling every 12 months.
- A data center uses as much electricity in one day as 12 typical houses use in a year.
Source: Edison Electric Institute
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