Having been around for a while I remember the concerns companies and sites had for the computer power required to serve https traffic. They used to make SSL/T

Having been around for a while I remember the concerns companies and sites had for the computer power required to serve https traffic. They used to make SSL/TLS and more accelerators you could slot into servers to make it faster. As a devil's advocate, I wonder how much energy the world would save by using HTTP, instead of HTTPS. That is a hell of a lot of processing going on every single second globally. The fatter and fatter and fatter websites get, the more compute is required to encrypt and decrypt everything. Think of how much electrical power could be freed up and used for better things. </s>