The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
Submitted 4 weeks ago by nutellawaescher@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/
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Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Strider@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And it doesn’t weigh anything!
glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
And how many grams of fossil fuel is burned to keep it running day and night?
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
tldr
If the internet is 175 x 1024^7 bytes, that’s 960,947 grams’ worth of DNA. That’s the same as 10.6 American males. Or one third of a Cybertruck. Or 64,000 strawberries.
Anything but metric.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
There is literally “grams” in that sentence
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Those were amerigrams
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You literally said “960,947 grams”
That’s 961kg, or about a single 4th grader short of one metric ton.
tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
…of DNA
Schorsch@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
wow I’m so shocked I can’t contain my excitement *yawn*
Does it get more clickbaity than this?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This is fantastically dumb. Why would they convert bytes into DNA? That is literally not how the internet works.
Can’t they convert it into hard drives? That would be better but it would still ignore all the hardware used to run the hard drives, connect them, etc.
I’m too lazy to go around the paywall.