Gb: Internet consumes too much energy, web rationed in 20 years? – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

Research and Development

14:35 May 4, 2015

(AGI) – London, May 4 – The UK could be forced in future to ration the supply of the Internet, because the web consumes more and more ‘electricity’ and, from here in 20 years, could reach almost to monopolize the energy produced in the country. Many of the experts who will meet later this month in London at a conference on this issue to be held ‘at the Royal Society have launched a first alarm: the demand for more and more’ multimedia content, combined with the boom in portable devices such as smartphones, tablets and Now even watches multitecnologici, already ‘at the moment leads to consumption, on certain days, electricity’ approximately 10% of that produced in Britain. An incredible effort for the companies ‘energy of the country, in a trend that could become untenable precisely between now and 2035. To launch the proposal of the rationing of Internet and’ was particularly Andrew Ellis, professor of optical communications of Aston University in Birmingham.
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