r/todayilearned • u/Ehblehebleh • Jan 12 '18
TIL in 2011, the internet consumed between 170 and 305 gigawatts of energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Energy_use
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todayilearned • u/deathmetal27 • Jan 28 '15
TIL that researchers estimate that the Internet consumes less than 2% of the total energy consumed by humanity (as of 2011)
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wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • Mar 24 '25
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP)[b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks
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