• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The UC paper above touches on that. I will link a better one if I find it.

    But specifically:

    streaming services

    Almost all the power from this is from internet infrastructure and the end device. Encoding videos (for them to be played thousands/millions of times) is basically free since its only done once, with the exception being YouTube (which is still very efficient). Storage servers can handle tons of clients (hence they’re dirt cheap), and (last I heard) Netflix even uses local cache boxes to shorten the distance.

    TBH it must be less per capita than CRTs. Old TVs burned power like crazy.