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A Growing and Power Hungry Internet

A GROWING & POWER HUNGRY INTERNET THE INTERNETISHUGE. =2.4 BILLION 2800 Today there 2100 are Internet Users 1400 INTERNET USERS (Millions) 700 Double what it was in 2007 1995 2000 2005 2010 Year vaild 7 million DVDS It would take 000O EVERY HOUR to store all the inforamation used on the Internet DVD DVD DVD DVD DVD DVD .AND GROWING VERY FAST By 2016 the amount of data on the Internet will be 4x MORE THAN TODAY It's estimated that by 2015 the information 966 exabytes consumed from the internet will reach WHICH TAKES A LOTOF POWER The Internet uses about 1.5% of global electricity or about 30 Billion Watts equal to the ortutof 30NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Google The electric bill would total $8.5BILLION Total Profit in 2011 In the US, data centers use more electricity than the auto industry By 2015 European data centers will use 100 TWh A ENOUGH ELECTRICTY TO POWER 8 MILLION HOMES .MADE WORSEBY THEIR INEFFICIENCY Normal data centers only use about 10% of their power for calculations -Power Utilized (10.0%) The rest is Power Wasted (90.0%)- WASTED Most still rely on heavy polluting diesel generators for backup In '08 & '09 Microsoft's Santa Clara center was listed as one of the top diesel polluters in the San Francisco Bay Area amazon.com was fined $261,638 in 2010 by Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality for using diesel generators without obtaining standard environmental permits HOWEVER, THEREISHOPE Investment (Billions) 50 Green data center investments 40 164%OVER THE NEXT 4 YEARS 30 20 10 - 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Projected to reduce data center electricity consumption by 33% WILL THIS BE ENOUGH? ONLY TIME WILL TELL Created by: WirelessSatellitelnternet.org References: http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/19Aworld-internet-population-has-doubled-in-the-last-5-years/ http://wwww.mbaonline.com/a-day-in-the-internet/ http://techland.time.com/2011/06/01/how-big-is-the-internet-spoiler-not-as-big-as-itl-be-in-2015/ http://althingsd.com/20110601/cis co-the-internet-is-lke-really-big-and-getting-bigger http://wwww.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/01/how-much-energy-does-the-internet-use/ http://wwu.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?pagewanted=all http://wwww.handymath.com/cgi-bin/electric.cgi http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/performe s/companies/p rofits/ http://wwww.energydigital.com/green_technology/worlds-greenest data-center-to-open http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/03/technology/internet_electricity/index.htm http://wwwu.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/data-centers-in-ruratwashington-state-gobble-power.html?pagewanted=all&_=0 http://www.pkeresearch.com/newsroom/green-data-center-market-to-reach-41-billion-annually-by-2015 http://wwwm.zdnet.com/green-data-center-market-seen-doubling-by-2016-7000004324 http://wwww.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906073928.htm http://wwwm.google.com/green/bigpicture/ http://greendatacenteroonference.com/blog/ten-greenest-data-center-facilities-worldwide/ This work is under a cre ative commons license BY NC ND Google is a registered trade mark of Google Inc. The Windows logo is a registered trademark of Micros oft Corporation Amazon is a registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. Mario is a registered trademark of Nintendo

A Growing and Power Hungry Internet

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We all know that the internet is huge and growing but what does it take to power it? It turns out a whole lotta electricity that't not exactly efficient.

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