IP: query from your Editor

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I am trying to make sense out of what appear to be outrageous estimates 
that computers and networks and their power consumption is one of the 
causes of the national power shortage.

In 1999, Mark P. Mills published a report for the Greening Earth Society 
(summarized in an article in Forbes Magazine) that attempted to calculate 
the "Internet related" portion of electricity use. This report claimed that 
electricity use associated with the Internet totaled about 8 percent of all 
U.S. electricity use in 1998 and that it would grow to half of all 
electricity use in the next decade.

Can an IPer help either confirm or deny such claims. To me it does not compute.

Dave



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