Power

However, running data centers on renewable power sources is not enough to address the growing energy use of the Internet. To start with, the Internet already uses three times more energy than all wind and solar power sources worldwide can provide.

Solar energy has fluctuated from zero to a peak of 46GW, but the variation is even more dramatic as a % of total energy production: from zero to more than 50% of the total .

How to deal with this huge fluctuation in production? What will happen if that fluctuation increases even more, following plans for additional wind and solar parks?

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For a useful example, consider an agrarian civilization that runs on sunlight, as every human society did until the rise of industrialism three centuries ago. In energetic terms, part of the annual influx of solar energy is collected via agriculture, stored as grain and transformed into mechanical energy by feeding the grain to human laborers and d

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