> To start with, transferring data uses electricity, so I don't follow your logic. Given that you totally misunderstood my second statement, I'm not surprised

> To start with, transferring data uses electricity, so I don't follow your logic. Given that you totally misunderstood my second statement, I'm not surprised that you don't follow my logic. The difference in cost to run a wired network with a given capacity -whether that network is being utilized at 0% or 100%- is effectively zero. > So is the marginal cost of each electron or H2O molecule. Again, you misunderstood my second statement, so it's not too surprising that you'd say this. You have to find and expend fuel to run electron pumping equipment. The cost of each unit of fuel is non-zero. You have to find and treat H2O. Most power plant fuels, and all H2O is a finite resource. We don't have to find and refine byte caches buried deep within the Earth. Bytes are free. And -again- a network costs the same whether it's pumping 0 bytes, or all of the bytes it can.