- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:32:55 +0100
- To: public-sustyweb@w3.org
On 29/09/2023 09:41, Dom Robinson wrote: > We are seeing no evidence that not sending data reduces energy > consumption. We have been measuring events like the world cup streaming > online and more, and network energy is not related to traffic, it is > related to the peak provisioned capacity of the network. Much looks to > be similar in cloud. > I think that is generally true of communication networks. Much of the cost is capacity related. In fact, for the traditional phone network, the main operating costs may well be billing. However, whilst the marginal load of a single site may have negligible impact on energy consumption, in the communications network, the combined effect is to require more infrastructure and therefore more energy consumption, in the long term, both embedded and operational. Also, I think that server energy use will depend on work loads, or at least should do with good designs.
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