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Second Life Avatars Might Consume 1,752 kWh

In Weblog on 7 December 2006 tagged , , , , with 2 comments

The Guardian News Blog has a post about the estimated energy consumption of a Second Life avatar. Further to my previous post about Carbon-Adjusted Computation, can I give out a call for all web service providers running computers on my behalf to provide these kinds of stats? It's really important that these things are visible.

Update: there's an insightful comment from fred2 on the Guardian blog post that in my opinion provides a better estimate, roughly a third of the first one.  The point here isn't the actual numbers, it's that we're thinking about the numbers at all.


2 Comments

Actually, I did some math based on global internet penetration - kind of scarey.

http://www.knowprose.com/node/16979

Posted by Taran Rampersad on 7 December 2006 @ 7am

Would you switch hosting provider if they used solar power? How much more would you be prepared to pay for that? 10%? 50%? Did you base your flight to SF on the most fuel efficient aircraft or the cheapest ticket?

Until a unilateral carbon tax exists we’re not going to see large scale changes in behaviour.

Posted by SteveC on 7 December 2006 @ 12pm

← Carbon-adjusted Computation This is what it looks like when I’m doing the washing up. →

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