1 MB of Internet Data Transfer = 1 lump of coal

July 30th, 2009 by J. Termine Leave a reply »

One lump of coal is the energy required to move a single megabyte of data across the Internet, according to Jay Walker — the man behind Priceline.com and curator of the Library of Human Imagination which he created in his mansion.  Makes you think of the energy one uses to transfer files over BitTorrent each day.

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