Internet is using more power than whole state of mississippi!

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That's the catchphrase coming from a study led by Jonathan Koomey, a scientist from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford, who did his research for Advanced Micro Devices, the computer-chip manufacturer.

Koomey's group says Internet servers consume 1.2 percent of the nation's electric power. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound like much, but it's a number that doubled in the five years from 2000 to 2005. It has companies worried; the nation's power grid is already overburdened. You can read more HERE and HERE. Koomey et al are given credit for doing the first reliable calculation of how much power the net consumes. (It also helps knock down some myths; there was an old number that suggested the Internet was drinking 13 percent of our power supply, and causing the west-coast power crises of a few years ago.)

Are these numbers necessarily a bad thing? No, say many engineers--if you're going online to get information, the energy it takes is probably a lot less than if you have to travel somewhere for it. But it does cost money--about $2.7 billion in 2005, says Koomey, and growing.

[mini_0]

Thats a very strange study . the common PC uses up a very little portion of the electric power and also the fact that even if the PC is on 24 hours and seven days the amount or percentage portion to a pc would be very much negligible , so , i dont think that is of much concern .