Following my retirement, we have closed our company for new business.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, our email portal remains open and I would be delighted to hear from you and provide ongoing support or advice.

Richard Thomson

support@rta-instruments.com

Companies represented up to the end of December 2023. Please now contact them directly.

k-Space Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1 (734) 426-7977
requestinfo@k-space.com
https://www.k-space.com

STAIB INSTRUMENTS GmbH
Phone: +49 8761 76 24 0
sales@staibinstruments.com
https://www.staibinstruments.com/

Tuesday 10 September 2013

Coal powers the cloud

Last month’s report by Digital Power Group into the electricity used by ICT systems states that global internet, data and cloud systems consume 1500 TW of electricity annually. This is equal to the combined generation of Japan and Germany. The report notes that coal is the world’s single current and future source of electricity. In addition, controversy has been caused by the claim that when taking into account the totality of the network and cloud infrastructure, watching an hour of video weekly on a tablet or smart phone consumes annually more electricity than two new refrigerators.

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