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If you combine the energy costs of delivering streaming video and the client side costs of playing video and executing JavaScript I have no doubt porn far outst
by nr2x 6y ago
If you combine the energy costs of delivering streaming video and the client side costs of playing video and executing JavaScript I have no doubt porn far outstrips Bitcoin. Hell, I bet JavaScript bloat from adtech alone and exceeds the totally energy budget of France.
- starclerk 6y agoThere are 3.4 billion internet users. It takes about 30 W to watch video in a browser [1]. Assuming every internet user watches 85 minutes of video per day [2] (517 hr/year), video consumption is 52 TWh per year. Or less than half of than the bitcoin network. Google uses 12 TWh per year [3]. Assuming Google is entirely focused on serving the world's video (it likely could), that still is ~half of the bitcoin network. (France consumes about 480 TWh per year [4]) [1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/05/microsoft-internet-explorer-10-is-the-most-energy-efficient-browser-uses-up-to-18-less-power-than-chrome-and-firefox/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/05/microsoft-internet-explore... [2] https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/video-110520 https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/video-110520 [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/10/21/googles-dominance-is-fueled-by-zambia-size-amounts-of-electricity/?sh=522016fb68c9 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/10/21/googles-... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_France
- nr2x 6y agoSeems like I lost my bet if those numbers are correct, kudos on doing the math!