> I'm curious how much energy it takes to send bits over cellular or wifi, my intuition is that this is orders of magnitude higher than compression or encoding.

> I'm curious how much energy it takes to send bits over cellular or wifi, my intuition is that this is orders of magnitude higher than compression or encoding. Correct, but the computational cost of decoding a codec is generally correlated with the number of bits. So JXL is not necessarily more expensive to decode than older codecs, if it compresses better.