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16 septembre 2021
- handle: 10670/1.48mtfr
- isbn: 9781783749614
- eisbn: 9791036521904
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Doug Barlage et al., « 5. Impact of the Digital Revolution on Worldwide Energy Consumption », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.48mtfr
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We Tweet, Facebook, Netflix and YouTube in the palm of our hand. We are aware of the amount of energy that it takes from how many times that we need to recharge our devices. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. For every joule of energy we expend locally, many more joules are spent in the backbone of the Internet. While our appetite for data has largely been insatiable over the last thirty years, the energy required to sustain this has been held in check by Moore’s Law’s driving cree...