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Analysis: the Internet and Electricity



By Dave Lindorff


  Table of Contents:
  1. Analysis: the Internet and Electricity
  2. ' Introduction '
  3. ' Jolting an Industry '
  4. ' Potential for Abuse '
  5. ' Facts '

Can the Internet help keep the lights on—and shave electric bills?

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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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