3 ms·

You mean kWh, not kW/h. Watt per hour would measure a change in power consumption over time.

• mxfh 7y ago
  Still an absurdly high number. fixed line internet has 0.06 kWh/GB according to this 2018 study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jiec.12630 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jiec.12630 The majority of data heavy stuff also tends to happen in WiFi environments. So I dont know where this 300x overhead increase is supposed to come from. A typical 3G base station is burning 500W/h no matter what data usage is. So unless you share you wireless cell with less than 5 people this should be magnitudes below a fridge. The wired part of the infrastructure is much more efficient and aggregated in general. I suppose the biggest culprut are not even the smarthones, but their cloud storage services, which are completely optional and not used to a large extent by the majority of smartphone users. Most of all ISP profits and subscription costs would also be decisively lower/higher if energy use and therefore cost was supposedly that significant.
  • majewsky 7y ago
    > 500W/h Again, "W/h" is almost always wrong. You mean just "W", which already contains the "per time" part because W = J/s.