Leaving the air-conditioning needs out of it right now and without knowing the exact number of servers needed to run SL with 4 regions per server it is still a huge amount of Electricity. However, that they are moving to a Data Centre powered by nuclear power certainly backs up the claim of lowering the carbon footprint on their side.
But, you still have a constant minimum 40,000 computers connecting to the grid(tm) each of those using 1,752,000kWh of electricty, which based on coal fired technology is a minimum of... 54,312,000 short tons of CO2 for the minimum 40,000 players of Second Life.
For more tangental calculations... Yes, I am now venturing into the ridiculous >.>)
54 million tons of CO2 for SL's 40,000 campers. 10 linden per hour by 40,000 people is 3.5 billion $Linden. In other words each $Linden has an environmental cost of 31 pounds (14kg) of CO2,
Buy US$20 of $Linden and you just helped to create 84,000kg of CO2
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Posted: May 19th 2009 10:26PM Joystiq Login Bugs SUCK said
But, you still have a constant minimum 40,000 computers connecting to the grid(tm) each of those using 1,752,000kWh of electricty, which based on coal fired technology is a minimum of... 54,312,000 short tons of CO2 for the minimum 40,000 players of Second Life.
For more tangental calculations... Yes, I am now venturing into the ridiculous >.>)
54 million tons of CO2 for SL's 40,000 campers. 10 linden per hour by 40,000 people is 3.5 billion $Linden. In other words each $Linden has an environmental cost of 31 pounds (14kg) of CO2,
Buy US$20 of $Linden and you just helped to create 84,000kg of CO2