Archive for December, 2006
It Really IS a Second Life!
EnergyBulletin has an interesting skim on computer energy consumption posted at http://www.energybulletin.net/23829.html
A clip to contemplate:
At the moment Linden Labs, who host the popular Second Life virtual world, has around 4,000 servers. Although they have two million signed up users, at any one time only around 15,000 people are logged on.
Blogger and technology writer Nicholas Carr did some rough calculations, based on the power consumption of each server being 200 watts and the power consumption of the logged-on user’s own PC being 120 watts, and reckons that each avatar uses 1,752 kilowatt hours of electricity–or about the same amount as an average person living in Brazil.