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Smartphone in hand data recharge Yes, how easy the world seems. whatever questions come to mind ‘Google Baba’ Everyone solves. Chat GPT has become even more revolutionary. This is such an app which is being used the most in the world. Someone is replying to email from this and someone is sending his home work is doing But have you ever wondered how much electricity these online services consume?
You must be thinking that you are using only as much electricity as is used to charge mobile, laptop or other devices, then you are very wrong. Actually whatever you do on the internet, data is spent in it, this data is released from the data center. It takes a lot of electricity to keep this data center running. The more these data centers, servers, server routers run, the more electricity is spent.
Increasing power consumption in online service
According to a report, about 5 billion people in the world live online from different devices. On an average, they spend about 7 hours a day on the internet. The shocking thing is that 80 percent of these people are spending the data just listening to songs or watching movies. If we talk about watching videos, then watching one hour of HD video consumes about 3 GB of data. It consumes about 9 Kwh electricity. In making which about 3.2 kg of carbon is emitted. According to a recent report by German company Strato, doing a search on the internet consumes almost enough electricity, which can burn an 11-watt CFL for an hour.
It takes so much electricity to trend a chat bot
It is said that only 2 Euro cents are spent in searching what is AI on the internet, according to the Indian rupee, it is about 178 rupees. According to a DW report, the ChatBot we hear about, consumes 936Mwh of electricity just to trend it. Means 9 lakh 36 thousand units. With this much electricity, electricity can be provided to one lakh houses a day.
What if the Internet was a country?
If we look at the figures, then the amount of data being used all over the world is consuming so much electricity that it is contributing 2.8 percent to the world’s carbon emissions. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest carbon emitter in the world. First in this list is the name of China, which emits about 27% carbon, followed by America at 15%, India at 7%, Russia and Japan.
immense damage to the environment
The more data is being spent on the internet, the more energy consumption is increasing. It is being estimated that in the next 10 years, the number of data users can increase by 60 percent. That means energy consumption is also bound to increase. According to the data analytics done by the American organization Cisco, a person in the US uses about 140 GB of data per month. On an average, this causes 2.4 billion KG carbon emissions in the country. More than 230 million trees are needed to compete with this much carbon.
