New Report: The Cloud Begins With Coal

Coal provides 40% of the world’s growing demand for electricity.

Marshall Institute Director Mark Mills released “The Cloud Begins With Coal,” an examination of the energy demands of the global information technology economy.

The information economy is a blue-whale economy with its energy uses mostly out of sight. Based on a mid-range estimate, the world’s Information-Communications-Technologies (ICT) ecosystem uses about 1,500 TWh of electricity annually, equal to all the electric generation of Japan and Germany combined — as much electricity as was used for global illumination in 1985. The ICT ecosystem now approaches 10% of world electricity generation. Or in other energy terms – the zettabyte era already uses about 50% more energy than global aviation.

Read ““The Cloud Begins With Coal”. Note this is a 45 Page PDF Lock file.

http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/cloud_begins_with_coal.pdf