How much energy do the "Internets" take?

tstiles's picture

A solid attempt to average out the global and US use of energy through just the use of the Internet. An interesting area or research and consideration as more and more of our "tools" are becoming electronically powered.

This reasercher estimated it out to be:

US: 350 billion kWh per year

World: 868 billion kWh per year

Uclue Estimate of Internet Energy Use details

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