According to estimates, the ICT sector’s share of the world’s energy consumption will surpass 20 percent by the end of this decade. One of the reasons is the huge increase in the number and size of websites, says Jukka Manner, Professor of Networking Technology at Aalto University. He recently studied the size and energy consumption of Finland’s most popular websites with his research group.
Size of mobile web pages increased tenfold in ten years, with implications for energy consumption
