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I found a little bit unusual story today in the newspaper (SydSvenskan/Ny Teknik swedish paper), and it was about the Internet being an environmental culprit and a big one as well.

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A journey in the cyber world might seem as harmless, no big power needs and environmentaly safe compared to a real journey.

But new studies show that the computers and servers world wide that make up the Internet, uses the same amount of power as the aviation.

Martin Hingley, researcher at IDC, says that the Internet operators servers and the users computers uses so big amounts of current that it can be seen as an environmental culprit.
And he continues saying that only one single avatar on second life causes 1.17 ton greenhouse gases being released yearly. And imagine how many avatars second life have in the system.

Between year 2000 and 2005, the electricity consumption doubled, only YouTube alone is according to the paper resulting in a electricity consumption that corresponds to to the one that 2 years ago powered the whole Internet. Back then 20, 1000 megawatts power plants were needed.

Computer manufacturers and programing companies like HP, IBM and Google have recognized this problem and have taken steps to lower the power consumption their products have.

And environmentally oriented surfers are urged to shut down their computer when not using it.

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Alright that was me translating a Swedish article to English.
So how do you feel, by going to my site you’re killing the environment :P, well I don’t take this seriously, I mean it’s not much we consumers can do and my opinion is that the manufacturers have to deal with it.

Also I have a hard time believing that YouTube requires an amount of 20 power plants with a 1000 MW capacity each, and the fact that they didn’t mention during what time frame that calculation was based on.
I mean if we take this site and calculate the power use for like 100-200 years I’d need 20 power plants like that as well.

Anyway fun to see what other people have to say.

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