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How Much Electricity Does It Take to Run the Web?

by Terrence O'Brien on October 22, 2009 at 09:12 AM

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/22/how-much-electricity-does-it-take-to-run-the-web/'; Ever wonder exactly how much electricity it takes to run the Internet? All those Tweets, e-mails, and YouTube videos aren't powered by magic fairy dust, it takes electricity, and lots of it, to store and spread this content. US Infrastructure (magazine) decided to examine the stats, and then put ...
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