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If in the rather unlikely case you’re wondering about the actual weight of the entire cyberspace, Russel Seitz has done the math. The whole electronic shebang “weighs less than two ounces.”

He writes:

A statistically rough ( one sigma) estimate might be 75-100 million servers @ ~350-550 watts each.. Call it Forty Billion Watts or ~ 40 GW. Since silicon logic runs at three volts or so, and an Ampere is some ten to the eighteenth electrons a second, a straight forward calculation reveals that if the average chip runs at a Gigaherz , some 50 grams of electrons in motion make up the Internet.

via KOTTKE

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