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The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video

The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video

Update: 2025-01-01
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: 


  • Data: information, typically stored on computers via electrical signals

  • Electrons: small elementary particles that flow through wires to transmit power and data

  • Photons: small elementary particles of light that carry information from screens to your face

  • Local Metro Network: computer network on the scale of a city, town, neighborhood, etc

  • Live action video: a video recording of the real world (people, scenery, etc) created using a camera

  • Data compression: storing data (pictures, video, text files, etc) in less space than the way it’s normally displayed. Kind of like a modern version of microfilm. Or words.

  • Illustrated video: video created using computer software to generate still images, kind of like a fancy powerpoint slideshow


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The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video

The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video

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