Worries about how much energy technology uses have been around for a long time. For example, during the 1990s, a popular article said the internet would soon use half of all electricity. But that guess was very wrong. Today, we know that data centers and the networks that move information each use only about 1 to 1.5% of all the electricity in the world, which is much less than people feared.
Worries About Tech's Power Use
People have worried about tech's power use before, but the predictions turned out to be wrong.