On average, an iPhone uses more energy than a single refrigerator. This was proposed by Mark Mills, CEO of the digital power group. A medium-sized refrigerator in a household consumes 322 KW yuan a year, and an iPhone uses 361 KW yuan. Of course, the network usage and battery are superimposed ).
This report is named "Cloud technology is accompanied by: big data, big networks, big facilities, and big energy". It describes in detail the current ITC ecosystem, the progress of information technology is accompanied by more energy consumption. After all, this is not like a flashlight, and information never sleeps in the real sense. Think about it: who will turn off the phone while sleeping?
The most important thing is that our devices require more and more energy. Brian woman mentioned in TIME:
Long-time rely on smart phones know that wireless data transmission, whether through 3G or WI-FI, will significantly increase the use of battery. As the "cloud" technology is getting better and better, we get used to transmitting everything from our devices to the cloud, which requires more and more power.