Monday, December 11, 2006

Is Second Life sustainable ecologically? (Boston Globe)

Roughtype What’s a virtual world got to do with ecology? Electricity. Linden Lab consumes an enormous amount of electricity on its 4,000 servers that support 10,000 to15,000 avatars at a time . . . and it’s just getting started. Nicholas Carr ran some numbers. He says an avatar consumes 1,752 kWh per year. That’s lower than the average human being ...

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