Guardian: Every day, a new part of our lives moves online. The internet now powers the movies we watch, the music we hear, how we communicate and the way we do business. This has led to an explosion in the amount of data we collate and consume, and all of that data requires a large and rapidly increasing amount of electricity.
Most people would be surprised to hear how much electricity is needed to power the web's infrastructure. If the internet were a country, it would now rank sixth in the world for its...