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 ...
Monday, December 11, 2006
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