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Powering the beast: why we shouldn’t worry about the Internet’s rising electricity consumption

13 Jan 2021 James McKenzie
Taken from the January 2021 issue of Physics World.

The Internet will use a fifth of all the world’s electricity by 2025 – and that’s no bad thing, says James McKenzie

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Fighting fit Data centres, which power the Internet, are incredibly efficient in terms of energy use. (Courtesy: iStock/Kwarkot)
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James McKenzie is the writer of the Transactions column for Physics World about physics in industry. He is writing here in a personal capacity
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