Nowadays, microchips are not only found in computers and smartphones, but also in household appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers, for example.
Information technology, and digitization in general, is currently responsible for just over 10% of global energy consumption in industrialized countries. Transistors are the central elements of digital data processing and are at the heart of this energy consumption.
The single atom transistor requires only about 0.1 percent of the energy of a conventional transistor for a switching operation and enables switching energies that are a factor of 10,000 smaller than conventional silicon technologies.
By 2040, MIT predicts that computer chips will require more electricity than our global energy production can supply.
More than 10% of the electricity demand of industrialized countries currently goes to data communication and processing
If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest energy consumer in the world.
Die Kryptowährung Bitcoin benötigt mehr elektrische Energie für seine Rechenleistung als Irland.
