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The cost numbers are suspect. The paper states: > Our major finding is that the Internet uses an average of about 5 kWh to support the utilization of every GB
by anilgulecha 7y ago
The cost numbers are suspect. The paper states:
> Our major finding is that the Internet uses an average of about 5 kWh to support the utilization of every GB of data, which equates to about $0.51 of energy costs.
Which I read as equating what's on storage -- A GB of data in a datacenter. Somehow the articles runs with this as a GB downloaded by a user, which is so bad, it's hilarious.