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yes, but the masts, wifi, network and servers to support that consume a lot more than 10Wh

• quaquaqua1 7y ago
  How much do they use compared to 24 hours of constant, valueless office lighting?
  • kryogen1c 7y ago
    Total, all-in energy costs is actually a pretty interesting question and intellectual exercise. Paint is actually super high on the list
  • KaiserPro 7y ago
    [.......] ^ this much, (not to scale.)
• maliker 7y ago
  I'd guess the energy costs would be similar since it's roughly the same hardware (CPUs, memory, radio transmitters) but minus the display.
  • fock 7y ago
    just having a lot higher transmission power and a lot of supporting hardware to keep things running for seasons (have you ever used your mobile phone in -10°C for an extended time - could you?) and years. I just did a little googling and found something like "total power consumption of all mobile phones in India"x15 (can't get the link, because of, well there's another comment for that...)
• cellularmitosis 7y ago
  And when you divide that by millions of users, how many watt hours is it?
  • KaiserPro 7y ago
    The only service that I know of that has millions of users on one instance is whatsapp. Everything else you're looking at 1% of a cpu, so 1% of ~40-80watts per connection. More if its active.