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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[wow.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sanskrit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 22nd 2009 9:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[it is obvious that all this computing power is a MAJOR cause of GLOBAL WARMING.  The Government must step in now to CONTROL THIS ABUSE and cut internet usage to levels acceptable to the masses.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 22nd 2009 10:33AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[Computing power doesn't cause global warming; polluting electricity generators do. There are plenty of ways to generate electricity without contributing to global warming.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KarlW]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 22nd 2009 10:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[Global Warming is an Earthly Trend not caused by a bleep like humanity.  Do your research and stop listening to Al Gore!  You will find the truth.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[definndesign]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2009 1:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[I agree with KarlW, There are many ways of making electricity, for the web to run.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jeff2590]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 22nd 2009 1:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[Man there's some horrible grammatical/spelling errors in that infographic :0]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 23rd 2009 10:00AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[6 billion + people world wide, just over a buck a person, bargin (ok maybe a billion with web access - make that $6/year) oh yeah and a little CO2. Big deal,  I spend more than that on petrol a day.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mick1e2]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 23rd 2009 10:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not to mention that this info graphic does little to explain what size data center is being referenced, what type of servers other than the obligatory small, medium, and large.<br><br>@CK - Do your own math, come up with your own conclusions vs listening to what somebody else tells you.<br>Trust me, great leaps and bounds are being made by Intel and AMD daily to try and shrink the die sizes in their fabrication methods, just in the last 5 years alone we have gone from 90nm to 35nm dies, which is leaps and bounds smaller than 10 years ago, what that does for us? generally less power used because the processors are more efficient, heat generated is wasted energy, also because the heat is generated that means bigger AC's are used to cool these data centers.<br><br>It isn't the actions of one group of people, its the collective of the entire industry that will bring the change.<br><br>Trust me, we are working on it...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lessthan16chars]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 23rd 2009 12:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/</guid><description><![CDATA[So.. 7  billion dollars a year worldwide.. that's like a dollar per person.   The average person probably pays over $300 a year, just for access to that network.  Considering only 13% of people on Earth have internet access, that works out to 210,000% (or 2100x) mark-up, just to connect to the internet.   Obviously this doesn't cover the cost of employees, software, and infrastructure, but it's still interesting.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lol]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 23rd 2009 1:01PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
