According to the report, the equipment that keeps us constantly connected to the Internet – now in nearly 90 million American homes – uses about $1 billion worth of electricity annually.
“These small, innocuous black boxes that never sleep consume enough electricity each year to power all 1.2 million homes in the Silicon Valley area,” said NRDC senior scientist Noah Horowitz.
The NRDC report, Cutting Energy Costs to Connect to the Internet, estimates that it takes all of the electricity produced by three power plants to keep this small network equipment constantly running across the country.
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