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== Forever Life, 2020 == | == Forever Life, 2020 == | ||
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''Architectural model people, plastic, glue'' | ''Architectural model people, plastic, glue'' | ||
In 2020 Second Life has 4,000 server computers in order to run their virtual world that houses a population of 12,500 avatars active at any one time. For each of these computer users operating these avatars per year they would roughly translate to driving an SUV around 2,300 miles or 3,700km. But what about those avatars that get created and are never to be used again? These avatars are still wandering around the Second Life servers. It isn’t just avatars wandering restlessly but cat videos saved years ago on a cloud service and forgotten, or a video saved on a hard drive never to be seen again -- all of these continuing to drive up emissions. | In 2020 Second Life has 4,000 server computers in order to run their virtual world that houses a population of [http://www.roughtype.com/?p=611 12,500 avatars] active at any one time. For each of these computer users operating these avatars per year they would roughly translate to driving an SUV around 2,300 miles or 3,700km. But what about those avatars that get created and are never to be used again? These avatars are still wandering around the Second Life servers. It isn’t just avatars wandering restlessly but cat videos saved years ago on a cloud service and forgotten, or a video saved on a hard drive never to be seen again -- all of these continuing to drive up emissions. | ||
In 2020 [https://techjury.net/stats-about/big-data-statistics/ every internet user generated an average of 1.7 megabytes of data per second.] Moreover, a report published in 2019 by the consulting firm Splunk stated that [https://www.splunk.com/en_us/newsroom/press-releases/2019/dark-data-research-reveals-widespread-complacency-in-driving-business-results-and-career-growth.html 55% of the data generated by major IT companies was useless,] but kept nevertheless, often it was technically impossible to erase a user from the Internet, as part of its data was kept in unknown locations. | |||
Keeping up with all this data inevitably raised the need to expand the architectures that allowed this data to exist: namely data centers. [https://strelkamag.com/en/article/the-sacred-fire-of-a-data-center An individual hyperscale data center] typically had a footprint of more than 10,000m2, but some of them could be even bigger. The data center industry consumed [https://fortune.com/2019/09/18/internet-cloud-server-data-center-energy-consumption-renewable-coal/ around 2% of electricity worldwide.] Data centers not just consumed enormous amounts of electricity, but also occupied extensive surfaces of land and required vast quantities of water to operate. | |||
==Socks and streaming, 2020 == | ==Socks and streaming, 2020 == | ||