Network Energy

Will we ever be able to accurately assess the carbon footprint of IT? Could a relational footprint methodology be more useful? Paper notes on Pasek et al (2023).

Removing the aggregation spine resulted in 5x higher speed and capacity, and 41% reduction in power.

Firefox 104 introduces power consumption measurement in the profiler. What does this mean for analyzing website energy consumption?

Website carbon calculators are not very accurate, especially if they only use data transfer as the metric.

The methodology is invalid, which the authors acknowledge but ignore. This means the results of this article aren’t particularly useful.

My notes on the paper: Syed et al (2021) An Analysis of Renewable Energy Usage by Mobile Data Network Operators. Sustainability. 13 (4), 1886.

It is obvious that Zoom is better for the environment than flying but what about vs driving an EV or public transport? The problem is we can’t be sure.

5G networks have larger antennas, larger bandwidths, and higher base station density. This means up to x3 more energy consumption. How can the industry expect x20 more energy efficiency by 2030?