Internet Uses 9.4% of Electricity In the US

[Shrygue]

via Slashdot


Equipment powering the internet accounts for 9.4% of electricity demand in the U.S., and 5.3% of global demand, according to research by David Sarokin at online pay-for-answers service Uclue. Worldwide, that's 868 billion kilowatt-hours per year.

The total includes the energy used by desktop computers and monitors (which makes up two-thirds of the total), plus other energy sinks including modems, routers, data processing equipment and cooling equipment.

[kcajblue]

wow.
thats a lot for internet.

[VampDude]

They should make these things use less power, that's too much.

[JKKDARK]

My computer is always on, but I turn off the monitor when I'm not here.

[VampDude]

My computer is always on, but I turn off the monitor when I'm not here.

My monitor shares a lead with my PC, which only using one socket of my power block so I can leave my monitor on all the time (it goes into sleep mode)