A green internet
Posted by Rahul Chitrapu on Tue, Jan 19, 2010
Bell Labs, a research arm of telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent, has launched a global effort to overhaul the internet to make it a 1,000 times greener by 2015. It is working with 15 other members from industry, academia and NGOs including AT&T, China Mobile, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics to make this happen. This consortium is being called "Green Touch."
How much energy do the internet and other communication networks use? They emit about the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution as 50 million cars - 300 million tons each year.
This consortium is looking to make daily emissions in 2015 a few times less than what the current yearly emissions are.
Via Solve Climate
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